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JavaScript for .NET Developers

By : Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
Book Image

JavaScript for .NET Developers

By: Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

Overview of this book

If you want to improve responsiveness or the UX in your ASP.NET applications, JavaScript can be a life saver. In an age where server-side operations have shifted to the client, being able to handle JavaScript with confidence and fluency is vital for ASP.NET developers. There’s no point trying to fight it, so start learning with this book. Make sure your projects exceed user expectations. Begin by getting stuck into the basics of JavaScript, and explore the language in the context of ASP.NET Core. You’ll then find out how to put the principles into practice, as you learn how to develop a basic ASP.NET application using Angular 2 and TypeScript. You’ll also develop essential skills required to develop responsive apps, with a little help from AJAX, ensuring that you’re building projects that can be easily accessed across different devices. With guidance on Node.js and some neat techniques to test and debug a range of JavaScript libraries in Visual Studio, you’ll soon be well on your way to combining JavaScript with ASP.NET in a way that’s capable of meeting the challenges of modern web development head-on.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JavaScript for .NET Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Developing an ASP.NET Application Using Angular 2 and Web API

In this chapter, we will develop a complete application on ASP.NET Core using MVC 6 for MVC views and Web API for web services. For the client side, we will use Angular 2, which is one of the most popular frameworks for client-side development. Angular 2 is written in TypeScript, but it provides the option to write code in JavaScript and Dart. In this chapter, we will use TypeScript because it adheres to the ECMAScript 6 standard, with a provision to generate JavaScript when you build your project in ECMAScript 3, ECMAScript 4, and ECMAScript 5 standards. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript and most of the things are common to both; in fact, TypeScript provides some features that in JavaScript are not implemented by many browsers, except Mozilla Firefox.

This chapter focuses on the basic concepts and takes you through a sample application to learn how Angular 2 can be used with ASP.NET Core and MVC 6.