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Mastering ABP Framework

By : Halil İbrahim Kalkan
Book Image

Mastering ABP Framework

By: Halil İbrahim Kalkan

Overview of this book

ABP Framework is a complete infrastructure for creating modern web applications by following software development best practices and conventions. With ABP's high-level framework and ecosystem, you can implement the Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle and focus on your business code. Written by the creator of ABP Framework, this book will help you to gain a complete understanding of the framework and modern web application development techniques. With step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you'll understand the requirements of a modern web solution and how ABP Framework makes it enjoyable to develop your own solutions. You'll discover the common requirements of enterprise web application development and explore the infrastructure provided by ABP. Throughout the book, you’ll get to grips with software development best practices for building maintainable and modular web solutions. By the end of this book, you'll be able to create a complete web solution that is easy to develop, maintain, and test.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction
6
Part 2: Fundamentals of ABP Framework
11
Part 3: Implementing Domain–Driven Design
15
Part 4: User Interface and API Development
19
Part 5: Miscellaneous

Working with Bootstrap tag helpers

Bootstrap is one of the most popular UI (HTML/CSS/JS) libraries in the world, and it is the fundamental UI framework that's used by all the ABP themes. As a benefit of using such a library as a standard library, we can build our UI pages and components based on Bootstrap and let the theme style them. In this way, our modules and even applications can be theme-independent and work with any ABP-compatible UI theme.

Bootstrap is a well-documented and easy-to-use library. However, there are two problems while writing Bootstrap-based UI code:

  • Some components require a lot of boilerplate code. Most parts of these codes are repetitive and tedious to write and maintain.
  • Writing plain Bootstrap code in an MVC/Razor Pages web application is not very type-safe. We can make mistakes in class names and HTML structure that we can't catch at compile time.

ASP.NET Core MVC/Razor Pages has a tag helper system to define reusable components...