BucketList Server-Side

Small API with SQLite database that saves notes for an iOS appliction called Bucket list. This project is done using Vapor 4, and has all CRUD operations implemented using the /tasks and /tasks/ endpoints.

Endpoints

Creating a task

POST "(localhost)/tasks"
Header "Content-Type: application/json"
Body:

{"objective": "My first tasks"} \

Reading all tasks

GET "(localhost)/tasks"
Header "Content-Type: application/json" \

Updating a tasks

PUT "(localhost)/tasks/(id)"
Header "Content-Type: application/json"
Body:

{"objective": "Writing to vapor and updated objective here "} \

Delete a tasks

DELETE "(localhost)/tasks/(id)"
Header "Content-Type: application/json" \

Running project

First install home brew: https://brew.sh

Then open terminal and run

Commands

brew install vapor
vapor

When you run vapor and see a list of commands then you have successfully install vapor

Now clone or download the repo to your desktop using GitHub desktop or whatever you prefer https://github.com/rodleyva/BucketServer/tree/master

Next we’ll cd and build our project It’s important the project is in your desktop or the next commands won’t work

Commands

cd ~/Desktop/(name of the project folder)
vapor build
vapor xcode

Then just run the project on Xcode and you will get a local server usually like http://127.0.0.1:8080

Errors

If you get a "vapor: Address already in use" error just do this in terminal

sudo lsof -i :8080
kill {PID of the process}

Then run the project again

reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53298296/vapor-address-already-in-use-errno-98