Before we start using Vapor, let's see how the Vapor package is built on top of its engine package. This will give us a better understanding of what, exactly, Vapor provides, and what is provided by the dependencies that it consumes, in case you need to build a lightweight server or want to embrace building your own variation of a web framework. We will do the following:
- First, build a basic web server that returns Hello World
- Then, modify our Hello World server to serve file content, making a static file server similar to Apache or Nginx
- Lastly, we will build a web socket server that will accept connections and echo back the message sent via the web socket connection
Going through the exercise of building ...
