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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)

Scaffolding a project with the dotnet CLI

As we've made the choice to be truly cross-platform, we can't use our typically familiar Visual Studio project templates to scaffold the project. Instead, we'll be making use of the dotnet CLI, which gives us exactly the same result anyway.

As the Vue template is a fairly new addition to the CLI, it's not actually installed with the core CLI installer. So, the first step is to download and install it so that we can use it to scaffold our application. Luckily for us, this is as easy as running a single Terminal command:

dotnet new --install Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaTemplates::*

Now, navigate into an empty directory with a name matching your project, and run the following command:

dotnet new vue

Note that this will not create a directory for you, and will name the application based on the folder you are inside.

If you...