Vapor

Health v2 · maintenance only

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26192 stars · 1523 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Vapor is a server-side HTTP web framework written in Swift, built on SwiftNIO with a non-blocking, event-driven architecture. It includes an ecosystem of packages such as Fluent (ORM), JWT (authentication), Leaf (templating), and WebSocketKit, enabling full backend, API, and web app development in Swift.

Use cases

• build a REST API in Swift
• create an HTTP server backend for an iOS app team
• serve JSON endpoints with routing and middleware
• build a website with server-side templating
• add JWT authentication to a Swift backend
• query a database with an ORM without writing SQL
• handle websocket connections server-side

When to choose

• your team already knows Swift and wants to reuse it for the backend
• you want a type-safe, performant, async/await-based web framework
• you need a full-stack Swift ecosystem including ORM, JWT, and templating

When to avoid

• your team primarily works in another language and has no Swift expertise
• you need a framework with a much larger middleware/job-market ecosystem like Node or Rails
• you rely on libraries or hosting tooling that only support mainstream server languages

Facets

framework · maturity stable

web-framework http-server routing orm auth templating websocket middleware web-development backend apis developer-tools cross-platform server-side-swift swift-nio http2 fluent jwt leaf async-await swift linux macos web-server

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