Kitura/Kitura

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Kitura/Kitura.json

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A Swift Web Framework and HTTP Server

Summary

Kitura is a web framework and web server that is created for web services written in Swift. For more information, visit www.kitura.dev.

Table of Contents

• [Summary]!(#summary)
• [Features]!(#features)
• [Getting Started]!(#getting-started)
• [Contributing to Kitura]!(#contributing-to-kitura)
• [Community]!(#community)

Features

• URL routing (e.g., GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH)
• Codable routing
• URL parameters
• Static file serving
• FastCGI support
• SSL/TLS support
• Pluggable middleware

Getting Started

Visit https://www.kitura.dev for a Getting Started guide, tutorials, and API reference documentation.

Contributing to Kitura

All improvements to Kitura are very welcome! Here’s how to get started with developing Kitura itself.

1. Clone this repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/Kitura/Kitura

2. Build and run tests.

$ swift test

You can find more info on contributing to Kitura in our contributing guidelines.

Notes

• Swift-NIO is now the default network engine via the Kitura-NIO package. If for some reason you require the old Kitura-net package, you can still enable it by setting an environment variable KITURA_NIO=0 during build.
• Most Kitura packages have been updated to require at least Swift 5.2 in order to maintain backward compatibility.

Community

We love to talk server-side Swift, and Kitura. Join our Slack to meet the team!