What 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 (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Vapor is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Vapor's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Vapor?
Companies
15 companies reportedly use Vapor in their tech stacks, including N26, Mobile, and bimspot.io.
Developers
100 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Vapor.
Vapor Integrations
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Vapor's Features
- Pure Swift (No makefiles, module maps)
- Modular
- Beautifully expressive
Vapor Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Vapor?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
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.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
