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ASP.NET Core 2 and Vue.js

By : Stuart Ratcliffe
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ASP.NET Core 2 and Vue.js

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By: Stuart Ratcliffe

Overview of this book

This book will walk you through the process of developing an e-commerce application from start to finish, utilizing an ASP.NET Core web API and Vue.js Single-Page Application (SPA) frontend. We will build the application using a featureslice approach, whereby in each chapter we will add the required frontend and backend changes to complete an entire feature. In the early chapters, we’ll keep things fairly simple to get you started, but by the end of the book, you’ll be utilizing some advanced concepts, such as server-side rendering and continuous integration and deployment. You will learn how to set up and configure a modern development environment for building ASP.NET Core web APIs and Vue.js SPA frontends.You will also learn about how ASP.NET Core differs from its predecessors, and how we can utilize those changes to our benefit. Finally, you will learn the fundamentals of building modern frontend applications using Vue.js, as well as some of the more advanced concepts, which can help make you more productive in your own applications in the future.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Understanding refresh tokens

Before we can implement them, we need to understand what refresh tokens are used for, what they actually are, and why we would want to use them on top of our current JSON Web Token (JWT)-based access tokens.

What are refresh tokens used for?

Let's start by understanding the basics of what we're actually going to use refresh tokens for, before diving into the nitty gritty of what they are actually composed of. As the name implies, a refresh token is used for refreshing an existing token—or more specifically, refreshing an existing access token.

Refresh tokens are used to obtain a new access token as and when your existing access token expires. What's more, this doesn't...