Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

Testing the routes

Build and run your Vapor application:

 $ vapor build $ vapor run

You can check all the route handlers using Postman. For example, create a HTTP POST request to localhost:8080/journal/ while your Vapor application is running locally:

Alternatively, you can use the curl tool to make a request in the Terminal:

$ curl --header "Content-Type: application/json"   --request POST   --data '{"id":"2","title":"New Test","content":"New Content"}'   http://localhost:8080/journal/

The output of the two tests looks like the following:

Server starting on http://localhost:8080Created: Entry(id: "4BCDD028-ECF0-4D43-81FD-2C8318781480", title: ...