Vapor (web framework)

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Vapor
Developer(s) Tanner Nelson and others
Initial releaseJanuary 18, 2016;9 years ago (2016-01-18) [1] [2]
Stable release
4.102.1 [3] / July 10, 2024;12 months ago (2024-07-10)
Written in Swift
Operating system macOS, Ubuntu
Platform SwiftNIO
Type Web framework
License MIT License
Website vapor.codes

Vapor is an open source web framework written in Swift and designed for Swift development. It can be used to create RESTful APIs, web apps, and real-time applications using WebSockets. In addition to the core framework, Vapor provides an ORM, a templating language, and packages to facilitate user authentication and authorization. [4]

Contents

Vapor's source code is hosted on GitHub and licensed under the MIT License. [5] Vapor has been a part of Swift's Server APIs working group since 2016. [6] [7]

History

Vapor 0.1.0 was released as a proof of concept for Swift on the server a month after Apple open sourced Swift and began Linux platform support on December 3, 2015. [8] Vapor 1.0 [9] arrived in September 2016, followed by the release of Vapor 2.0 in May 2017. [10]

The framework was rewritten for Vapor 3.0 [11] 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 Kitura) adopted the new SwiftNIO framework on the main Swift.org server page. [12]

Vapor 3's beta period saw educational material published by Packt, [13] [14] [15] Paul Hudson, [16] Razeware LLC, [17] and lynda.com. [18] Vapor was recognized by Swift.org with an official Swift Forum in its inaugural group of Related Projects [19] in May 2018.

Vapor 4 [20] 's Alpha 1 Release started in May 2019 and the stable version released in April 2020. [21]

Releases

VersionRelease dateSwift version
Unsupported: 1.0Sep 15, 2016≥ 3.0
Unsupported: 2.0May 17, 2017≥ 3.1
Unsupported: 3.0May 4, 2018≥ 4.1
Latest version:4.0April 9, 2020≥ 5.2
Future version: 5.0TBD≥ TBD
Legend:
Unsupported
Supported
Latest version
Preview version
Future version

Source: Vapor Docs & GitHub Releases. [22] [23]

Swift version support

Vapor 4 supports the last 3 minor Swift versions. As of October 27th 2023, this includes Swift 5.7, Swift 5.8 and Swift 5.9.

This meets the standards set out by the Swift Server Workgroup, [24] of which Vapor is a member [25]

Features

Vapor supports the following features: [26]

References

  1. ↑ "Vapor 0.1.0 Release". GitHub . 2016-01-25. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  2. ↑ "Server-side Swift Frameworks Comparison" . Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  3. ↑ "Vapor 4.102.1 Release". GitHub . 2023-07-10. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
  4. ↑ "Vapor GitHub Organization". GitHub . Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  5. ↑ "vapor/vapor LICENSE at master". GitHub . 2018-02-23. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  6. ↑ "Swift Server APIs". 2016-10-25. Archived from the original on 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  7. ↑ "Swift Blog: Server APIs Work Group". 2016-10-25. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  8. ↑ "Swift is Open Source". 2015-12-03. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  9. ↑ "Vapor 1.0.0 Release". GitHub . 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  10. ↑ "Vapor 2.0.0 Release". GitHub . 2018-05-17. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  11. ↑ "Vapor 3.0.0 released". 2018-05-04. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  12. ↑ Inc., Apple. "Swift.org". Swift.org. Retrieved 2018-10-04.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  13. ↑ Patel, Ankur (2018-03-30). Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift. Packt Publishing. ISBN   978-1788625241.
  14. ↑ Yeung, Angus (2018). Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift: Build dynamic web apps by leveraging two popular Swift web frameworks: Vapor 3.0 and Kitura 2.5. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN   9781789345865 . Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  15. ↑ Kuepper, Ralph (2020-03-12). Hands-On Swift 5 Microservice Development. Packt Publishing. ISBN   978-1789530889.
  16. ↑ Hudson, Paul (2018-03-01). Server-Side Swift (Vapor ed.).
  17. ↑ Condon, Tim; et al. Server Side Swift with Vapor. Razeware LLC.
  18. ↑ "Learning Server-Side Swift with Vapor". Archived from the original on 2021-05-09. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  19. ↑ "Introducing Related Projects to Swift Forums". 2018-05-10.
  20. ↑ VAPOR (2019-05-28). "Vapor 4: Alpha 1 Releases Begin". Medium. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  21. ↑ "Release Vapor 4.0.0 · vapor/vapor". GitHub. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  22. ↑ "GitHub: vapor/vapor Releases". GitHub. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  23. ↑ "Vapor Docs: Support". Vapor. Retrieved 2018-05-04.[ permanent dead link ]
  24. ↑ "Swift Server Workgoup".
  25. ↑ "Swift Server Workgroup Members".
  26. ↑ "Vapor Docs". docs.vapor.codes. Archived from the original on 2021-07-22. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  27. ↑ Elliot, Keith (2016-10-06). Swift 3 New Features. Packt Publishing. ISBN   978-1786462718.
  28. ↑ Hussain, Shaista; et al. (2018-03-12). Proceedings of the 2018 6th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Association for Computing Machinery. ISBN   978-1-4503-6348-8.
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