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ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners

By : Andreas Helland, Vincent Maverick Durano, Jeffrey Chilberto, Ed Price
Book Image

ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners

By: Andreas Helland, Vincent Maverick Durano, Jeffrey Chilberto, Ed Price

Overview of this book

ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners is a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to the framework. This condensed guide takes a practical and engaging approach to cover everything that you need to know to start using ASP.NET Core for building cloud-ready, modern web applications. The book starts with a brief introduction to the ASP.NET Core framework and highlights the new features in its latest release, ASP.NET Core 5. It then covers the improvements in cross-platform support, the view engines that will help you to understand web development, and the new frontend technologies available with Blazor for building interactive web UIs. As you advance, you’ll learn the fundamentals of the different frameworks and capabilities that ship with ASP.NET Core. You'll also get to grips with securing web apps with identity implementation, unit testing, and the latest in containers and cloud-native to deploy them to AWS and Microsoft Azure. Throughout the book, you’ll find clear and concise code samples that illustrate each concept along with the strategies and techniques that will help to develop scalable and robust web apps. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to leverage ASP.NET Core 5 to build and deploy dynamic websites and services in a variety of real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Section 1 – Crawling
7
Section 2 – Walking
12
Section 3 – Running

Understanding the Blazor web framework

Blazor was introduced as an experimental project in early 2018. It's the latest addition to the Single-Page Application (SPA)-based ASP.NET Core web frameworks. You can think of it as similar to React, Angular, Vue, and other SPA-based frameworks, but it is powered by C# and the Razor markup language, enabling you to create web applications without having to write JavaScript. Yes, you heard that right – without JavaScript! Though Blazor doesn't require you to use JavaScript, it offers a feature called JavaScript interoperability (JS interop), which allows you to invoke JavaScript code from your C# code and vice versa. Pretty neat!

Regardless of whether you are coming from a Windows, Xamarin, Web Forms, or traditional ASP.NET MVC development background, or are completely new to ASP.NET Core and want to take your skills to the next level, Blazor is definitely a great choice for you since it enables you to use your existing C...