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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)

An introduction to webpack

So far, we have made quite a few references to webpack without going into any kind of detail as to what it is and why we need to use it. As previously mentioned, we won't be going into too much detail here, but we'll cover enough of the basics to point you in the right direction when it comes to needing to branch away from the default configuration.

What is webpack?

Webpack is what we call a module bundler, and acts as the middleman between our client-side source code and the JavaScript files that actually get run by the browser. Essentially, webpack allows us to build the frontend of a large and complex application as we would with a backend ASP.NET application using many different files...