Ecosystem

Ecosystem here can be interpreted as the choices of libraries or tools that a Swift server-side adopts and integrates into the framework. We may have preferences for some technologies, and at the same time, we may have reasons for avoiding other technologies as trade-offs in the design of our application. Sometimes, the effort will be daunting if we want to integrate a third-party library into the chosen framework that does not have the library included already. The best time-saving tip is to choose the framework that has the most preferred libraries so we can minimize the effort to do integration ourselves.

The main components and choices of third-party libraries in Vapor and Kitura are listed in the following table:

In the rest of this book, we will visit most of the previously mentioned technologies again when we learn how to build web applications and services with Vapor and Kitura.