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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)

Persisting the cart to local storage

As you will have noticed already, every time we refresh the browser, our shopping cart's contents are lost. Both component- and application-level state are only stored in memory, apart from the catalog filter selections, which we pushed into the browser URL. As such, as soon as the browser is refreshed, that memory is cleared and we lose the state of our shopping cart.

There are a number of ways that we could solve this problem, including persisting the state into the browser's local storage, or pushing the state up to our API and persisting it in the database. Both of these options are completely acceptable and widely used approaches, but they also have their own pros and cons. Persisting to local storage in the browser is simple and effective, but if the user clears their browser cache, then they will still lose their cart items...