Vapor is an

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written in

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. It can be used to create RESTful APIs, web apps, and real-time applications using

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s. In addition to the core framework, Vapor provides an

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, a templating language, and packages to facilitate user

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and

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. Vapor's

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is hosted on

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and licensed under the

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. Vapor has been a part of Swift's Server APIs working group since 2016.

History

Vapor 0.1.0 was released as a proof of concept for Swift on the server a month after

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open sourced Swift and began

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platform support on December 3, 2015. Vapor 1.0 arrived in September 2016, followed by the release of Vapor 2.0 in May 2017. The framework was rewritten for Vapor 3.0 to be built on Apple's non-blocking networking framework SwiftNIO. Vapor 3 was released in May 2018. Apple cited the speed with which Vapor (along with

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) adopted the new SwiftNIO framework on the main Swift.org server page. Vapor 3's beta period saw educational material published by

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, Paul Hudson, Razeware LLC, and

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. Vapor was recognized by Swift.org with an official Swift Forum in its inaugural group of Related Projects in May 2018. Vapor 4's Alpha 1 Release started in May 2019 and the stable version released in April 2020.

Releases

Source: Vapor Docs & GitHub Releases.

Features

Vapor supports the following features: * Async / non-blocking IO * Authentication: basic, bearer, JWT, and password * Cache:

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and in-Memory * Commands / console formatting * Content Negotiation:

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, multipart, and URL-encoded form * Crypto: RNG, ciphers, digests,

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* Dependency Injection / Inversion of Control * Fluent ORM:

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, and

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Client and Server * Leaf Templating:

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etc * Logging * URL Routing * Validation * WebSocket client and server * Queue Jobs

References

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