Frontend demo application to be used with trainee-cdk.

Developed using Swift on Server and the Vapor framework (including the Leaf library).

Follow the instructions on the official Vapor website to install the client application.

https://vapor.codes

On a Mac, you can use Homebrew to install the CLI using the following command.

brew install vapor

Run the Vapor new command.

vapor new trainee-frontend

The command will generate a trainee-frontend folder with this structure

• trainee-frontend
  • Public - Files to be served to client without processing (images, CSS files)
  • Resources/Views - Leaf templates
  • Sources/App
    • Controllers - Controllers that handle routes defined in routes.swift
    • configure.swift
    • entrypoint.swift
    • routes.swift
  • Tests
  • docker-compose.yml
  • Dockerfile
  • Package.swift

To build the application into an executable run the command

swift build 

To build and run the application

swift run

To build and run the unit tests

swift test

The buildspec.yml configuration file is used to tell CodeBuild how to build this project and what the artifacts are.

The appspec.yml configuration file is used to tell CodeDeploy how to deploy artifacts and run the application in production. The configuration also makes use of the scripts found in the Scripts folder to manage the lifecycle of the application.