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Documentation markdown for all Vapor packages.

Vapor Documentation

This is the documentation for Vapor, a Web Framework for Swift that works on iOS, macOS, and Ubuntu; and all of the packages that Vapor offers.

Vapor is the most used web framework for Swift. It provides a beautifully expressive and easy to use foundation for your next website or API.

To view the framework's source code and code documentation, visit Vapor's GitHub.

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API

Auto-generated API documentation is located at api.vapor.codes.

Packages

Here are a list of all the packages and modules included with Vapor (also useable individually).

• Vapor: Swift's most used web framework.
  • Auth: User authentication and persistance.
  • Sessions: Secure, ephemeral cookie based data storage.
  • Cookies: HTTP cookies.
  • Routing: Advanced router with type-safe parameterization.
• Fluent: Models, relationships, and querying for NoSQL and SQL databases.
• Engine: Core transport layers.
  • HTTP: Pure Swift HTTP client and server.
  • URI: Pure Swift URI parsing and serializing.
  • WebSockets: Full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection.
  • SMTP: Send email using Sendgrid and Gmail.
• Leaf: An extensible templating language.
• JSON: Maps Jay JSON to Vapor types.
• Console: Swift wrapper for console IO and commands.
• TLS: Swift wrapper for CLibreSSL's new TLS.
• Crypto: Cryptography from LibreSSL and Swift.
  • Digests: Hashing with and without authentication.
  • Ciphers: Encryption and decryption
  • Random: Pseudo and cryptographically secure randomness.
  • BCrypt: Pure Swift implementation.
• Node: Data structure for easy type conversions.
  • Polymorphic: Syntax for easily accessing values from common types like JSON.
  • Path Indexable: A protocol for powerful subscript access of common types like JSON.
• Core: Core extensions, type-aliases, and functions that facilitate common tasks.
• Socks: Swift C Socket API wrapper.

Providers & Other

Here are a list of providers and third party packages that work great with Vapor.

• MySQL: Robust MySQL interface for Swift.
  • MySQL Driver: MySQL driver for Fluent.
  • MySQL Provider: MySQL provider for Vapor.
• SQLite: SQLite 3 wrapper for Swift
  • SQLite Driver: SQLite driver for Fluent.
  • SQLite Provider: SQLite provider for Vapor.
• PostgreSQL: Robust PostgreSQL interface for Swift.
  • PostgreSQL Driver: PostgreSQL driver for Fluent.
  • PostgreSQL Provider: PostgreSQL provider for Vapor.
• MongoKitten*: Native MongoDB driver for Swift, written in Swift
  • Mongo Driver: MongoKitten driver for Fluent.
  • Mongo Provider: MongoKitten provider for Vapor.
  • MainecoonVapor: MongoKitten ORM for Vapor.
• Redbird: Pure-Swift Redis client implemented from the original protocol spec..
  • Redis Provider: Redis cache provider for Vapor.
• Kitura Provider: Use IBM's Kitura HTTP server in Vapor.
• SwiftyBeaver: Adds the powerful logging of SwiftyBeaver to Vapor.
• APNS: Simple APNS Library for Vapor (Swift).
• JWT: JWT implementation for Vapor.
• VaporS3Signer: Generate V4 Auth Header/Pre-Signed URL for AWS S3 REST API
• Flock: Automated deployment of Swift projects to servers
  • VaporFlock: Use Flock to deploy Vapor applications
• VaporForms: Brings simple, dynamic and re-usable web form handling to Vapor.
• Jobs: A minimalistic job/background-task system for Swift.
• Heimdall: An easy to use HTTP request logger.

Authors

Tanner Nelson, Logan Wright, and the hundreds of members of Vapor.