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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)

Creating a cart summary component

To further demonstrate the benefits of centralized store state and getters, we're going to add a cart summary component that displays in a popup when a user hovers over the cart link in the navbar. We'll add another getter that calculates the total number of items in the cart, then use it along with the one we already have inside the popover to show how useful it is to have reusable calculated properties like this.

Add the following exported function to the ClientApp/store/getters.js file:

export const shoppingCartItemCount = state => {
const reducer = (accumulator, cartItem) => accumulator +
cartItem.quantity;
return state.cart.reduce(reducer, 0);
};

This is very similar to the previous getter we created, so it should look fairly familiar, but ultimately we're doing the equivalent of a Sum calculation on a LINQ collection...