Frank is a proof of concept, standalone Swift server demonstrating how a Swift server can be built from scratch without any dependencies. Its usage is loosely based on Ruby's Sinatra framework and Frank could in theory be turned into a framework itself.
It's very, very basic!
An alternative for building a new server-side Swift framework is to build on top of Apple's SwiftNIO.
Or just use one of the numerous server-side Swift frameworks already gaining popularity.
Setup endpoints like so:
get("/home") {
return "🏠"
}
get("/people") {
return """
<html><head><style>
h1 { font-size:4cm; text-align: center }
</style></head>
<body><h1>👫👫👫👫👫</h1></body>
</html>
"""
}Then begin running like so:
Frank.start()Err, everything is limited.
- The only supported HTTP method is GET.
- The only supported content type is text/html.
- It does not support inspection of variables in URL.
- It does not support inspection of query parameters.
Basically, it's pretty useless, unless your intended use is to demonstrate how a very simple server is made from scratch in Swift, using no dependencies. For that I think it's just about OK.
This was a proof of concept. I have no intention of building this out into something useful.