So far, so good, we have just set up a working skeleton of what's about to come. Before moving further, let's quickly recap what we just did in this first chapter.

We briefly described our platforms of choice, ASP.NET Core and Angular 2, and acknowledged their combined potential in the process of building a modern web application. Then we chose a NWA with a single-page application approach as the ideal field of choice for testing what our frameworks are able to do (and how to do it).

In an attempt to reproduce a realistic production-case scenario, we also went through the most common SPA features: first from a technical point of view, then by putting us in the shoes of a typical product owner and trying to enumerate his expectations. We also made a quick list of everything we need to put together a potentially shippable product featuring all the expected goodies.

Eventually, we spent an appropriate amount of time setting up our development environment. This included installing package managers, choosing a suitable client-side framework, introducing task runners and configuring both ASP.NET Core and Angular 2.

Finally, we performed a quick test to see that all the bricks we'd lain were in place and ready to hold their ground against what's coming next, setting up a request-response cycle, building our very first controller, defining efficient routing strategies, and more.