Install on macOS#

To use Vapor on macOS, you just need to have Xcode 9.3 or greater installed.

Install Xcode#

Install Xcode 9.3 or greater from the Mac App Store.

Warning

After Xcode has been downloaded, you must open it to finish the installation. This may take a while.

Double check the installation was successful by opening Terminal and running:

swift --version

You should see output similar to:

Apple Swift version 4.1.0 (swiftlang-900.0.69.2 clang-900.0.38)
Target: x86_64-apple-macosx10.9

Vapor requires Swift 4.1 or greater.

Now that you have Swift 4.1, let’s install the Vapor Toolbox.

The toolbox includes all of Vapor’s dependencies as well as a handy CLI tool for creating new projects.

brew tap vapor/tap
brew install vapor/tap/vapor

Tip

If you don’t already have Homebrew installed, install it at brew.sh →

Double check the installation was successful by opening Terminal and running:

vapor --help

You should see a long list of available commands.

Now that you have installed Vapor, create your first app in Getting Started → Hello, world.