Use UIKit with Vapor or Kitura

Question

I have developed an iOS App and would like to create a web API with some parts of my code. This API will send an UIImage generated from a UIView. The problem I have with Vapor is that I only managed to use AppKit, not UIKit. Certainly because the Xcode project with Vapor is a MacOS project. Is there a way to use UIKit or iOS Swift code with Vapor or any other solutions like Kitura ???

Thanks for your help :)

Regards,

Answer 1

If you want your Backend API Server (Vapor or Kitura) to run in a hosted environment, it will need to be able to run on Linux - where only Foundation is supported.

You can still transfer UIImages between iOS app and server, but you'll need to convert the UIImage to Data first (using something like UIImage.jpegData() )

You can see an example of this in the "FoodTrackerBackend" tutorial for Kitura here: https://github.com/IBM/FoodTrackerBackend