VaporWhat is Vapor?
Vapor is the first true web framework for Swift. It provides a beautifully expressive foundation for your app without tying you to any single server implementation.
Vapor is a tool in the Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Pure Swift (No makefiles, module maps)ModularBeautifully expressive
Vapor Pros & Cons
Pros of Vapor
- ✓Fast
- ✓Swift
- ✓Type-safe
- ✓Great for apis
- ✓Asynchronous
- ✓Compiled to machine code
- ✓Good Abstraction
- ✓Readable
- ✓Maintainable
- ✓Complete
Cons of Vapor
- ✗Not as much support available.
- ✗Server side swift is still in its infancy
Vapor Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Vapor?
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
ASP.NET
.NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications.
Laravel
It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.
