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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

What is Blazor?

As I indicated in the introduction, Blazor is an SPA framework used to build interactive web applications, just like other SPA frameworks such as Angular, React, and Vue.js. However, it has one important difference – we can use C# to build the application instead of JavaScript, which means we can run .NET in browsers. Blazor uses the .NET core runtime to execute the .NET code in the browser (for Blazor WebAssembly).

Running .NET in browsers is not a new idea. Microsoft has done it before with Silverlight. To run Silverlight applications, we had to install a plugin on the browser. Blazor, on the other hand, runs natively on the browser, thanks to WebAssembly technology, which is defined as the following on https://webassembly.org:

"WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server...