Udemy – Hummingbird: Build Backend APIs in Swift

Most Swift developers never explore what it’s like to build backend systems using Swift. This course changes that. In this course, you’ll learn how to build fast, modern, and production-ready backend applications using Hummingbird, a lightweight and powerful server-side Swift framework built on top of SwiftNIO. Instead of abstract theory, we focus on building a real backend step by step. You’ll learn how to design APIs, structure your code, and work with databases while taking full advantage of Swift’s async/await and structured concurrency. We start from the ground up. Even if you’ve never written backend code before, you’ll understand how everything fits together.

In this course, you will:

• Build REST APIs using Hummingbird
• Understand routing, request handling, and middleware
• Learn how Request and Context work and why they matter
• Structure your application using controllers and clean patterns
• Work with databases using Fluent and PostgreSQL
• Perform CRUD operations with real data
• Implement authentication using JWT
• Handle errors and responses properly
• Understand how Swift concurrency improves backend performance