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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)

Client-side routing

At this point, our single-page application is quite literally that—a single page. This is where things get a little more complicated, as we can't rely on the server for handling the routing as we would with a standard ASP.NET MVC application. We need a way of routing to the pages of our SPA on the client. Fortunately for us, Vue has an official client-side routing library called Vue-Router, which is already installed and configured for us seeing as we started out by using the Microsoft application template.

So, what exactly is a page in a Vue SPA? As with most questions that I've come across while building Vue applications, there is a very simple answer; a page is nothing more than a standard component! As such, when creating a page for our application, the process is exactly the same as we've been following to create new components throughout...