Server-Side Swift
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2 points • zu-fox
Basically they are to Swift like Rails to Ruby or Laravel to PHP, etc. They provide a lot of built in functionality to setup a functional backend, so you concentrate on writing logic and API endpoints.
As for why you'd want to use it. I'm not sure, maybe Swift will be a next do it all super popular language (although, how many languages tried to dethrone PHP?) — they are also aiming for making it a system-development language in the future, it is also nice that an iOS developer can setup a backend for a side project with less effort. Actually, I was thinking to dip into backend a bit, so I'll be starting with Kitura/Vapor, since I'll be able to learn a new environment with a familiar language, and then I can move to other languages.
Reading:
IBM made a free course on Udacity about Kitura.
Vapor has docs and tutorials on their site and there are some tutorials on Raywenderlich. Vapor also provides a hosting ready for Vapor-built backend.
There is also Perfect framework, which is (at least was) fastest of them all, but has the most complex syntax and I believe it's mixed with C++.
Also, you can read this article , but since it's been written, Kitura 2 should have appeared, and a new version on Vapor should be released either by now or soon — they bound it with release of Swift 4.1.