Vapor logo # Vapor Documentation
Welcome to the Vapor Documentation! Vapor is a web framework for Swift, allowing you to write backends, web apps APIs and HTTP servers in Swift. Vapor is written in Swift, which is a modern, powerful and safe language providing a number of benefits over the more traditional server languages. ## Getting Started If this is your first time using Vapor, head to [Install → macOS](install/macos.md) to install Swift and Vapor. Once you have Vapor installed, check out [Getting Started → Hello, world](getting-started/hello-world.md) to create your first Vapor app! ## Other Sources Here are some other great places to find information about Vapor. | name | description | link | |----------------|--------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------| | Vapor Discord | Chat with thousands of Vapor developers. | [visit →](https://vapor.team) | | API docs | Auto-generated documentation from code comments. | [visit →](https://api.vapor.codes) | | Stack Overflow | Ask and answer questions with the `vapor` tag. | [visit →](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vapor) | | Swift Forums | Post in Vapor's section of the Swift.org forums. | [visit →](https://forums.swift.org/c/related-projects/vapor) | | Source Code | Learn how Vapor works under the hood. | [visit →](https://github.com/vapor/vapor) | | GitHub Issues | Report bugs or request features on GitHub. | [visit →](https://github.com/vapor/vapor/issues) | ## Old Documentation Documentation for deprecated versions of Vapor that are now end-of-life can be found at [https://legacy.docs.vapor.codes/](https://legacy.docs.vapor.codes/). ## Authors The Vapor Core Team, and the hundreds of members of the Vapor community.