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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)

Creating a search bar component

To finish off our product catalog, we're going to add a basic search bar to give our users even more control over the product list they're browsing. Let's start by creating a new component named SearchBar.vue in the ClientApp/components/catalogue directory. The template section for this component is very simple:

<template>
<div>
<b-form-input
:value="query"
type="text"
placeholder="Search..."
@change="update"
@keyup.enter.native="search">
</b-form-input>
</div>
</template>

All we're rendering is a text input field, with a few standard attributes such as a placeholder of "Search…". However, usually, we would use the v-model directive on text inputs, so why are we binding the value of the text input...