The Vapor SDK Book

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This book is for people creating, building, validating, packaging, and publishing Vapor content or first-party Vapor app-root updates.

Quick Start

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Show the shortest successful SDK authoring path.

Installation And App Root

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Explain Steam-installed SDK roots, local development roots, and activation.

Workspaces

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Explain workspace kinds and SDK workspace discovery.

Vapor.toml

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Explain human-authored workspace and content intent files.

Templates

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Explain SDK templates once they are real.

Content Authoring

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Explain authoring engines, games, mods, and packs.

Packs And Packagepacks

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Explain pack composition from the authoring side.

Toolchain

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Explain the Vapor-managed Rust/Cargo toolchain.

Managed Cargo

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Explain how SDK-managed Cargo differs from plain system Cargo.

Check, Format, Build

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Explain SDK check, fmt, and build workflows.

Deploy

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Explain deploying first-party tool binaries into an app root.

Package

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Explain packaging app-root or content artifacts.

Publish

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Explain publish flows and their boundaries.

SteamCMD

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Explain SteamCMD login, state, and root publishing.

Workshop

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Explain future Workshop publishing from the SDK side.

Command Reference

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List SDK commands when their semantics are stable enough.

File Layout

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Describe app-root, workspace, output, cache, and generated file layout.

Troubleshooting

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Collect common SDK failures and repairs.

Limits

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Explain what the SDK cannot guarantee.