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Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift
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Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

by Angus Yeung
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
10h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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The frontend layer

The frontend layer consists of web content (in the form of HTML/CSS/JS) for website applications or an API for web services. In the case of website applications, the web content could be generated by templating engines, such as Vapor Leaf, Stencil, Mustache, and Markdown, or enhanced by JavaScript frameworks, such as jQuery, Angular, and React. Frontend applications may pull in other resources via the APIs provided by other Web Services. The clients for a website application will be a variety of web browsers on different platforms.

In the case of web services, the clients make HTTP requests to the application server and exchange data in JSON. An application server is not expected to render web content (HTML/JS/CSS), have ...

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