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ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5

By : Valerio De Sanctis
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ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5

By: Valerio De Sanctis

Overview of this book

Become fluent in both frontend and backend web development by combining the impressive capabilities of ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5 from project setup right through the deployment phase. Full-stack web development means being able to work on both the frontend and backend portions of an application. The frontend is the part that users will see or interact with, while the backend is the underlying engine, that handles the logical flow: server configuration, data storage and retrieval, database interactions, user authentication, and more. Use the ASP.NET Core MVC framework to implement the backend with API calls and server-side routing. Learn how to put the frontend together using top-notch Angular 5 features such as two-way binding, Observables, and Dependency Injection, build the Data Model with Entity Framework Core, style the frontend with CSS/LESS for a responsive and mobile-friendly UI, handle user input with Forms and Validators, explore different authentication techniques, including the support for third-party OAuth2 providers such as Facebook, and deploy the application using Windows Server, SQL Server, and the IIS/Kestrel reverse proxy.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Switching to SQL Server


Although localDB proved itself to be a great development choice, it's not a good idea to use it in production as well. That's why we'll replace it with SQL Server. As for the chosen edition, we can either go for Express, Web, Standard, or Enterprise, depending on what we need and/or can afford.

For the sake of simplicity, we'll use SQL Server 2017 Express Edition, which can be downloaded for free from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-editions-express.

Needless to say, we need to install it on a machine that is reachable from our web server via a Local Area Network (LAN) or within the web server itself, although this is definitely not a recommended choice; both IIS and SQL Server are resource-intensive; hence, it's advisable to keep them in two separate environments.

Installing SQL Server 2017 Express

The installation process is pretty straightforward. Unless we don't need anything specific, we can just go for the basic type:

Eventually, we'll be prompted...