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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)

Hiding UI elements based on role

So, we're now preventing admin users from placing orders by locking down the API endpoint to customer users only; we are also preventing admin users from accessing the shopping cart, checkout, and my account pages, seeing as they are no use to a user who can't place orders. However, the links to those pages are still visible, and this isn't a good user experience, so let's go ahead and hide the links that admin users shouldn't be able to see.

The first thing we're going to do is hide the cart summary widget in the main navbar. Open up the ClientApp/components/App.vue file, then make the following amendments to the template section:

<b-navbar-nav class="ml-auto mr-4">
<cart-summary v-if="isCustomer" />
<auth-nav-item />
</b-navbar-nav>

Very simply, we conditionally render...