The Getting Started tutorial for Swift uses this sample application to provide you with a sample workflow for working with any Swift app; you set up a development environment, deploy an app locally and on the cloud, and then integrate an IBM Cloud database service in your app.

The Swift app uses the Kitura Web Framework and a Cloudant NoSQL DB to illustrate how to store information in a database and then return information from a database to the UI. To learn more about how the app connects to Cloudant, see the Kitura CouchDB Library.

Alternatively, this app can connect to a MongoDB service. As described, this functionality requires the libressl, which is needed when running the application locally on macOS, even if using Cloudant. Install it with brew install libressl.

The following steps are the general procedure to set up and deploy your app to IBM Cloud. See more detailed instructions in the Getting started tutorial for Swift.

You'll need a IBM Cloud account, Git, IBM Cloud CLI, and Swift installed.