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ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular - Fourth Edition

By : Valerio De Sanctis
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ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular - Fourth Edition

By: Valerio De Sanctis

Overview of this book

Learning full-stack development calls for knowledge of both front-end and back-end web development. ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular, Fourth Edition will enhance your ability to create, debug, and deploy efficient web applications using ASP.NET Core and Angular. This revised edition includes coverage of the Angular routing module, expanded discussion on the Angular CLI, and detailed instructions for deploying apps on Azure, as well as both Windows and Linux. Taking care to explain and challenge design choices made throughout the text, Valerio teaches you how to build a data model with Entity Framework Core, alongside utilizing the Entity Core Fluent API and EntityTypeConfiguration class. You’ll learn how to fetch and display data and handle user input with Angular reactive forms and front-end and back-end validators for maximum effect. Later, you will perform advanced debugging and explore the unit testing features provided by xUnit.net (.NET 5) and Jasmine, as well as Karma for Angular. After adding authentication and authorization to your apps, you will explore progressive web applications (PWAs), learning about their technical requirements, testing, and converting SWAs to PWAs. By the end of this book, you will understand how to tie together the front end and back end to build and deploy secure and robust web applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Angular unit tests

Everything we have said in the previous sections of this chapter regarding the ASP.NET Core testing purposes, meanings, and approaches is also valid for Angular.

Luckily enough, this time, we won't need to install anything since the ASP.NET Core and Angular Visual Studio template that we've used to create our WorldCities project already contains everything we need to write app tests for our Angular application.

More specifically, we can already count on the following packages, which we briefly introduced in Chapter 2, Looking Around:

  • Jasmine: A JavaScript testing framework that fully supports the BDD approach that we talked about earlier
  • Karma: A tool that lets us spawn browsers and run our Jasmine tests inside them (and show their results) from the command line
  • Protractor: An end-to-end test framework that runs tests against Angular applications from within a real browser, interacting with it as if it were a real user
  • ...