This is a demo for getting Vapor running on a Raspberry Pi using swift 4.1.1 from the swift-arm port.

1. Setup your Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Stretch
2. Enable ssh
   • Set up passwordless ssh access to avoid entering password
3. Install swift 4.1.1 from the swift-arm port
4. Clone a bare git repo, e.g. sudo mkdir /git && sudo git clone --bare ssh://[email protected]/git/VaporberryPi.git /git/VaporberryPi.git && sudo chown -R pi:pi /git
5. Add a post-receive hook script to your bare git repo that runs when you push new code to it (see post-receive hook example in Appendix)
6. Clone your bare git repo to create a working git repo, e.g. git clone ssh://pi@localhost/git/VaporberryPi.git ~/VaporberryPi

1. Clone VaporberryPi from the bare repo on your Raspberry Pi, e.g. git clone ssh://[email protected]/git/VaporberryPi.git
2. Change current directory to your VaporberryPi clone, e.g. cd VaporberryPi
3. Use ssh to connect to your Raspberry Pi to confirm the connection, e.g. ssh [email protected] -- hostname
4. Push to your bare repo: git push origin
   • Confirm in the git push origin output that the project builds and runs successfully on the Raspberry Pi
5. Open a web browser and go to http://raspberrypi.local:8080
   • Confirm output: "It works!"

John Woolsey trailblazed this topic with Controlling A Raspberry Pi From A Web Browser With Vapor 3. Check it out for a tutorial on next steps, like how to integrate an LED into the program.

This post-receive hook:

1. changes the active directory to the working git repo,
2. fetches new changes from the bare repo and resets its state to match,
3. executes the Procfile script and logs its output to a file in /tmp.

$ chmod +x /git/VaporberryPi.git/hooks/post-receive

$ ls -ld /git/VaporberryPi.git/hooks/post-receive
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 254 Mar 10 14:11 /git/VaporberryPi.git/hooks/post-receive

$ cat /git/VaporberryPi.git/hooks/post-receive
#!/bin/bash -e
code_dir=~/VaporberryPi
cd "$code_dir"
git --git-dir "$code_dir/.git" --work-tree "$code_dir" fetch --all origin master
git --git-dir "$code_dir/.git" --work-tree "$code_dir" reset --hard origin/master
git --git-dir "$code_dir/.git" --work-tree "$code_dir" clean --force
log=/tmp/"$(basename "$code_dir")"-post-receive.log
./Procfile | tee "$log"
exit