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ASP.NET Core 2 and Vue.js

By : Stuart Ratcliffe
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Book Image

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)

Refactoring the backend setup

I'm a huge fan of the feature folder approach to structuring ASP.NET Core applications. As you will probably already know, in the default application folder structure of a typical MVC application, we have separate directories for controllers, models, and views. As our application grows and we add more and more features, we spend a lot of time switching between these folders in our IDE or editor. It can also become quite difficult to quickly find the specific files we're looking for, particularly in the Models folder, as you'll usually have a handful of different view models per database entity.

An alternative approach is to group these controllers, models, and views into a folder per feature of the application. For example, the Features/Products directory would contain the ProductsController, right alongside the views and view models...