This is a Swift web application that offers live date formatting using DateFormatter on the server.
This is useful for Swift and Objective-C developers as a way to test out behavior without having to compile & run over and over again.
It was originally written as a means to learn Swift on Linux. It stayed because so many people found it useful!
- Swift 5.9
- Vapor 4
- Svelte
- Vite
- Tailwindcss
(Previously: Digital Ocean, Heroku)
Current: Netlify front-end, AWS Lambda for backend.
The front-end is written in Svelte and uses Vite as a development server.
To run the dev server:
npm run dev
To build the dist folder that contains all the final files for deployment:
npm run build
This is automatically run by Netlify upon deployment.
You can use Xcode or launch it via command line.
To build & run the vapor backend server:
swift run
Keep in mind that you have to stop & restart for any Swift-level change.
You'll also need to run the front-end server:
cd front-end && npm run dev
Connect to this front-end server in your browser.
This app can run essentially anywhere (and has). The Dockerfile can be used to deploy this on a number of cloud infrastructure or PAAS providers.
Currently this is done with AWS Lambda and Netlify.
To deploy the backend server, run:
just deploy
This will build the docker image and deploy it with a SAM template.
The Netlify deployment happens on a git push.
The source code to this application is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE.
This site was inspired by foragoodstrftime.com, which does the same thing but for Ruby. 🍻
Pull requests are welcome. Keep in mind that not all suggestions will make it in, as I want this to be an easy to use resource, not an exhaustive list of everything DateFormatter can do.