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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
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Section 2 – Walking
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Section 3 – Running

Creating the Blazor Web Assembly project

In the previous project, we learned how to create a web app with basic functionalities such as fetching and updating records via a web API call. In this project, we will build the frontend Progressive Web Application (PWA) to create a new record. This process is executed by invoking an API endpoint to post data and sends an event to Hub to automatically update the Blazor Server UI in real time when a new record is submitted.

Here's an attempt showing how the process works:

Figure 6.10 – Real-time data update flow

The preceding diagram shows the high-level process of how the real-time functionality works. The steps are pretty much self-explanatory, and it should give you a better understanding of how each application connects to one another. Without further ado, let's start building the last project to complete the whole application.

Go ahead and add a new Blazor WebAssembly project within the existing...