Server API Development in Swift, Kitura, & Bluemix

Course details

Welcome to Server API Development in Swift, Kitura, & Bluemix.

WHY TAKE THIS COURSE?

It can be tough learning many different languages for both front-end and back-end development. Why not make life so much easier and program everything in Swift? Here are a few reason why you should learn Kitura with Swift:

1. You can build an API that supports all platforms (Firebase only supports iOS/Android - not tvOS or macOS)
2. You can become a full stack-engineer without having to learn another programming language 
3. Knowing back-end API development will give you a competitive advantage in applying for jobs
4. You can build an API and database for your own app ideas
5. Lower learning curve to get a back-end up vs learning Node or Rails or Django or PHP

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Swift (if you don't know it already)
• Kitura (framework for building APIs and managing web requests)
• CouchDB
• IBM Cloudant Database
• IBM Bluemix
• How to deploy an API live on the Internet
• How to build an iOS app that communicates with your own API
• How to get your API to store and retrieve data from databases
• How to setup the tools for development on macOS and Ubuntu
• Working with CRUD operations 
• REST API