Feature sets

Performance is not the only factor we should consider. A production release of web application includes a complete set of robust features. Swift server-side frameworks often offer many useful functions that are common to most applications. Some common feature sets for Swift frameworks are listed as follows:

• CLI tool: Offers tools for generating boilerplates, building, and deploying an application
• Templating engine: Supports templating language for web content
• Networking I/O: Facilitates the handling of requests over the network
• Database ORM: Simplifies the querying for the back-end database
• Logging framework: Helps catch useful information during runtime
• Test framework: Creates unit tests for testing the web application
• Authentication: Provides authentication features, such as user login or social login
• Security framework: Adds encryption to communication and messaging pipelines, and sockets
• Monitoring and diagnostics: Offers real-time monitoring and diagnostics
• User session management: Manages a user's session after login
• Cloud deployment: Helps deploy a server application in an automated way
• Swift support: Updates to the latest Swift version quickly

When choosing the right server-side framework, we will need to check whether any of the features mentioned have already been integrated in the framework, or if integration of third-party libraries that implement such features are easy and straightforward.