Getting started with Vapor

A small project to understand the basic concepts of Vapor with Fluent.

Run Command on Terminal

1. To create a new project, the "-n" flag gives you a bare template by automatically answering no to all the packages questionnaire.

$dev vapor new project_name -n
$dev vapor --help

2. To create a new project with Fluent

$dev vapor new project_name
$dev Would you like to use Fluent? (--fluent/--no-fluent) <y/n> y
$dev fluent: Yes
$dev db: Postgres (Recommended)
$dev Would you like to use Leaf? (--leaf/--no-leaf)
$dev y/n> n
$dev leaf: No

3. Install Brew (if you don't have it)

refer to this link to install: https://brew.sh/

4. To enable/disble services for PostgreSQL

$dev brew services start postgresql
$dev brew services stop postgresql
$dev brew services restart postgresql

5. Create a DB via Postgres assuming user name as todo_user and database name as todo_db

$dev createuser -P todo_user
$dev createdb -O todo_user todo_db

6. Open the package assuming user name as todo_user and database name as todo_db

$dev cd project_name
$dev open Package.swift

7. To check the active routes

$dev vapor run routes

8. To migrate the database

$dev vapor run migrate