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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)

Adding a getter to display the cart total

The final change we need to make to the shopping cart itself is to display the calculated grand total at the bottom. As it stands, we have no means of calculating it, so we're just displaying a hardcoded £0.00 value instead. To fix this, we'll add a Vuex getter to our store, which will calculate the total in a reusable function that we can use anywhere in our application.

Getters have a similar use case as computed properties: creating derived state for specific display purposes. In this case, the grand total of the shopping cart is the sum of a specific calculation on each cart item. We could store the grand total as a state property, but we'd then have the overhead of remembering to keep it up to date after any mutation has run that could alter that value. Instead, we derive the value from the cart items, and as they...