Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

Reviewing Kitura-generated files

After using kitura init to create a Kitura boilerplate helloWorld project, use the ls -a command in the helloWorld project directory to list all files and subdirectories:

# List all files and directories, including the hidden ones
ls -a

The output lists the files and directories in this project, as follows:

.                 .dockerignore     Dockerfile             README.md          iterative-dev.sh ..                .gitignore            Dockerfile-tools    Sources                     manifest.yml .bluemix   .swift-version     Jenkinsfile             Tests                           spec.json .build        .swiftservergenerator-project          LICENSE                 chart .cfignore   .yo-rc.json          Package.swift         cli-config.yml

There are a number of hidden files and directories in the project. They are hidden because Kitura doesn't expect you to modify them very often: ...