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JavaScript for .NET Developers

By : Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
Book Image

JavaScript for .NET Developers

By: Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

Overview of this book

If you want to improve responsiveness or the UX in your ASP.NET applications, JavaScript can be a life saver. In an age where server-side operations have shifted to the client, being able to handle JavaScript with confidence and fluency is vital for ASP.NET developers. There’s no point trying to fight it, so start learning with this book. Make sure your projects exceed user expectations. Begin by getting stuck into the basics of JavaScript, and explore the language in the context of ASP.NET Core. You’ll then find out how to put the principles into practice, as you learn how to develop a basic ASP.NET application using Angular 2 and TypeScript. You’ll also develop essential skills required to develop responsive apps, with a little help from AJAX, ensuring that you’re building projects that can be easily accessed across different devices. With guidance on Node.js and some neat techniques to test and debug a range of JavaScript libraries in Visual Studio, you’ll soon be well on your way to combining JavaScript with ASP.NET in a way that’s capable of meeting the challenges of modern web development head-on.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JavaScript for .NET Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Developing a to-do application in ASP.NET Core


We have learned the core features of Angular 2 and how to write programs in TypeScript. Now it's time to develop a simple to-do application using Angular 2 and ASP.NET Core. ASP.NET Core is the latest web development platform from Microsoft, which is more optimized and modular than previous versions of ASP.NET. It provides an option to use the machine-wide .NET Framework, or a new .NET Core which runs on an app-by-app basis and even contains the framework binaries in the published web application folder itself. With the new ASP.NET Core, we are not dependent for running our application on IIS, and there are several other servers provided to run cross-platform using Kestrel. To learn more about ASP.NET Core, please refer to http://docs.asp.net.

We will go through a step-by-step tutorial that leads to a working to-do application. The following screenshot show a snapshot of the main page. Once the user logs in, it will show a list of all the to...