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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

Getting started with the ABP Blazor UI

There are two ways to start a new project using ABP's startup solution templates. You can either download it from https://abp.io/get-started or create it using the ABP CLI. I will use the CLI approach in this book. If you haven't installed it yet, open a command-line terminal and execute the following command:

dotnet tool install -g Volo.Abp.Cli

Now, we can create a new solution using the abp new command:

abp new DemoApp -u blazor

DemoApp is the solution name in this example. I've passed the -u blazor parameter to specify Blazor WebAssembly. If you want to use Blazor Server, you can specify the parameter as -u blazor-server.

I haven't specified a database provider, so it uses Entity Framework Core by default (specify the -d mongodb parameter if you want to use MongoDB). After creating the solution, we need to create the initial database migration. As a first step, we should execute the following command in the...