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Modern Web Development with ASP.NET Core 3 - Second Edition

By : Ricardo Peres
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Modern Web Development with ASP.NET Core 3 - Second Edition

By: Ricardo Peres

Overview of this book

ASP.NET has been the preferred choice of web developers for a long time. With ASP.NET Core 3, Microsoft has made internal changes to the framework along with introducing new additions that will change the way you approach web development. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to help you make the most of the latest features in the framework, right from gRPC and conventions to Blazor, which has a new chapter dedicated to it. You’ll begin with an overview of the essential topics, exploring the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, various platforms, dependencies, and frameworks. Next, you’ll learn how to set up and configure the MVC environment, before delving into advanced routing options. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with controllers and actions to process requests, and later understand how to create HTML inputs for models. Moving on, you'll discover the essential aspects of syntax and processes when working with Razor. You'll also get up to speed with client-side development and explore the testing, logging, scalability, and security aspects of ASP.NET Core. Finally, you'll learn how to deploy ASP.NET Core to several environments, such as Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Docker. By the end of the book, you’ll be well versed in development in ASP.NET Core and will have a deep understanding of how to interact with the framework and work cross-platform.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Fundamentals of ASP.NET Core 3
7
Section 2: Improving Productivity
14
Section 3: Advanced Topics
Appendix A: The dotnet Tool

Summary

In this chapter, we've seen Blazor, the new and cool technology that Microsoft made available with .NET Core 3.0. It is still at its very early stages, and much can be expected of it in terms of features, community adoption, and libraries.

It is advisable to split work into components and to use page layouts, as is usual for Razor Pages and views.

In this chapter, we saw that we need to keep complex logic on the server. Remember that when the WebAssembly hosting model comes, all assemblies will need to be sent to the client, and thus will need to be kept small and with the most minimal logic possible.

Think about security from the start, and define policies and roles for the key parts of your app that you want to keep secure.

It is important to enforce route constraints, as they will keep your code more resilient and fault-tolerant. The next chapter will have a few new topics included in this version of ASP.NET Core.

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