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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)

Installing frontend tools and dependencies

For any kind of modern frontend development, we're going to need Node and Node Package Manager (npm) installed. Node itself is a runtime built on top of Chrome's V8 engine, enabling us to run JavaScript on the server side of our applications. So, why do we need it if we're using ASP.NET Core?

Node and npm are both requirements of the tooling used to build and run medium-large scale Vue applications. We'll also be using npm to install a lot of client-side packages that we'll use within the application itself.

Installing Node and npm

Head on over to the following URL and download the Node.js installer (https://nodejs.org/en/). The website should be smart enough...