How does Server Side Swift Workout in the Real World?
summary
A production Full Stack Swift app called gBeat streams Apple Watch heart rates to a web overlay using Vapor, Redis pub/sub and WebSockets, deployed on Heroku with CI via GitLab → GitHub and Fastlane. Notable engineering details: simctl token injection to bypass Sign in with Apple limits in the watch simulator, Bonjour-based dev discovery for automatic local server URLs, protobuf (protuff) text-record chunking for small payloads, Vite/TypeScript front end, mono-repo with multiple Heroku buildpacks.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and warm-up
- 1:51Concept and design
- 4:48Technical workflow
- 10:07Developer tooling deep dive
- 16:06Network and local discovery
- 20:28Communication and notifications
- 24:46Expanding functionality
- 30:35CI/CD and deployment
- 33:39Future plans and conclusion
