CellaneAwesome Vapor 
Vapor is currently one of the most popular server-side Swift frameworks. It allows you to take the language you already know if you ever developed an iOS application and use it in a whole new way, to develop fast, scalable and reliable back-end systems that integrate easily with a wide range of third party services. This is a curated list of:
- modern libraries that easily integrate with Vapor and follow Vapor’s philosophy of providing simple, clean yet powerful APIs;
- well-written tutorials, books, videos and education materials;
- tools to make your development process simpler and more enjoyable;
- and more!
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How to use
Simply press Command + F to search for a keyword. If you’re only interested in entries related to Vapor 2 or only to Vapor 3, you may use the automatically generated filtered lists available on the filtered branch by visiting the links in this sentence.
Libraries
API Error Middleware – Vapor middleware for converting thrown errors to JSON responses.- APNS – Vapor APNS for iOS.
AWS – Swift wrapper around AWS API.- Bugsnag – Report errors with Bugsnag.
- CSRF – A package to add protection to Vapor against CSRF attacks.
- CSV Framework – A simple framework to read and write CSV files.
- Ferno – Vapor Firebase Realtime database provider.
- Flash – Flash messages between views.
- FluentQuery – Build complex raw SQL queries while still using Swift keypaths.
- Forms – Tools for working with Forms in Vapor.
- Gatekeeper – Rate limiting middleware for Vapor.
- Google Cloud Provider – Interact with Google Cloud Platform APIs from your Vapor project.
- Guardian – Modern rate-limiting middleware.
- Imperial – Federated Authentication with OAuth providers.
- JWT Keychain – Easily scaffold a keychain using JWT for Vapor.
- JWT Middleware – Middleware to Authenticate and Authorize Requests in Vapor.
- Leaf Error Middleware – Serve up custom 404 and server error pages for your Vapor App.
- Leaf Markdown – Markdown renderer for Vapor.
- Lingo Vapor – Vapor provider for Lingo – the Swift localization library.
- Local Storage – Storage driver using local filesystem.
- MailCore – Sending e-mails via SMTP, MailGun and SendGrid.
- Meow – An alternative codable ORM for MongoDB.
- MongoKitten – MongoDB driver in Swift.
- Pagination – Simple Vapor 3 Pagination.
- Paginator – Query pagination for Vapor and Fluent.
- S3 – Library for accessing the Amazon S3 service (and compatible) with support for most commonly used operations.
- S3 Storage – Library for simple access to the Amazon S3 service.
- Sanitize – Powerful model extraction from Vapor JSON requests.
- Sanitized – Safely extract and validate Vapor models from requests.
- SendGrid Provider – SendGrid-powered mail backend for Vapor.
- SimpleFileLogger – A simple file logging provider for Vapor.
- Slugify – Convenience for sluggifying your strings.
- Storage – Eases the use of multiple storage and CDN services.
- Stripe Provider – Stripe Provider for Vapor.
- Submissions – Conveniences for creating forms and validating (form) submissions.
- SwiftyBeaver Provider – SwiftyBeaver Logging Provider for Vapor, the server-side Swift web framework.
- Sugar – A package of sugar for Vapor.
- Telesign Provider – A Telesign provider for Vapor.
- UAPusher – Send push notifications using Urban Airship.
- VaporAPNS – Simple APNS Library for Vapor (Swift).
- VaporExt – A collection of Swift extensions for wide range of Vapor data types and classes.
- Vapor Mailgun Service – A service to be used with Vapor to send emails.
- Vapor OAuth – OAuth2 Provider Library for Vapor.
- Vapor OAuth Fluent – Fluent Implementations For Vapor OAuth.
- Vapor reCAPTCHA – Validate Google reCAPTCHAs using Vapor.
- Vapor Request Storage – A replacement for
request.storagewhich was available in Vapor 1 & 2. - Vapor Security Headers – Harden Your Security Headers For Vapor.
- Vapor Test Tools – Helper designed to make testing your endpoints in Vapor 3 pain-free.
- WKHTMLTOPDF – Build PDF files from Leaf templates or web pages through the
wkhtmltopdfCLI tool. - XMLCoding – XML encoder and decoder.
- CrudRouter – Automatic RESTful CRUD router generation for any Fluent Model.
Tools
- Ether – A Command-Line Interface for the Swift Package Manager.
- Heroku buildpack: curl with HTTP/2 support
- Ice – A developer friendly package manager for Swift; 100% compatible with Swift Package Manager.
- Sourcery – Meta-programming for Swift, stop writing boilerplate code.
- Sourcery Templates – Building Vapor projects using meta programming with Sourcery.
- Sublimate – Fast prototyping with synchronization and authentication based on Sourcery.
- Swifter – A macOS tool to help you manage your Xcode projects and give you a quick access to DerivedData folder cleaning and management.
Services
Education
Articles
- Developing and deploying Vapor 3 with Docker
- Fluent And Controllers - Part 1
- Fluent Part 2 - Parent-Child Relationships
- Fluent Part 3 - Sibling Relationships
- Fluent Part 4 - Persistence With MySQL And Fluent Patterns
- Getting started with Vapor
- Leaf Part 1 - Getting Started
- Vapor 2 with Docker – Definitive Docker guide for Vapor 2.
- Vapor 3 with Docker – Definitive Docker guide for Vapor 3.
- Vapor 3 Tutorials – Big collection of small tutorials.
- Transforming from Vapor 2 to Vapor 3 – Transitioning from Vapor 2 to Vapor 3 with a real world project.
Books
Newsletters
- VaporNation – Weekly Vapor newsletter with all things Vapor.
Videos
Open-source Projects
- CocoaHeads Russia – Server side API for the CocoaHeads Russia app.
- Server-side Swift Racing – Statistics on growth trend of all major server-side swift frameworks.
- Starred Search – Search READMEs in starred GitHub repositories.
- SteamPress – A Blogging Engine and Platform written in Swift for use with the Vapor Framework.
- User Manager Service – A small, useful user manager made for production application setups.
- VaporBerlin – The backend of meetup website for VaporBerlin.
- Vapor Chat – A real-time chat client built with Vapor that features an iOS app.
License
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