White Space at the bottom of a tableview - swift

Question

I have a viewcontroller with a tableview inside it. At the bottom of the tableview there is some white space that I want to get rid of and be replaced by my background colour.
I have added and customised the tableview programatically so I am looking for a programatic answer, as I did not use storyboard much for this. (I had only used it to setup my TabBarController and link it to navigation and view-controllers.)
Below is the some of the code I used to configure the tableview.
private let tableView: UITableView = {
let tableView = UITableView(frame: .zero, style: .plain)
tableView.register(ProfileTableViewCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: ProfileTableViewCell.identifier)
tableView.backgroundColor = Constants.backgroundColor
return tableView
}()
override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
tableView.frame = view.bounds
}
Im sure the answer is probably just a single line of code, but I couldn't find one that worked. Thanks in advance!
***EDIT
I have found a solution, but I still think there is a better way to solve this problem. The code below sets a UIView as the background of the tableview, then changes the colour of the UIView.
private let tableView: UITableView = {
let tableView = UITableView(frame: .zero, style: .plain)
tableView.register(ProfileTableViewCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: ProfileTableViewCell.identifier)
let backgroundView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0,
y: 0,
width: tableView.bounds.size.width,
height: tableView.bounds.size.height))
backgroundView.backgroundColor = Constants.backgroundColor
tableView.backgroundView = backgroundView
return tableView
}()

Answer 1

The default color of the containing view controller is showing, since the table is short. Try setting the view controller's view's background color in viewDidLoad:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad();
view.backgroundColor = Constants.backgroundColor
}