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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

Understanding modularity

The term module is one of the most overused and overloaded concepts in the software industry. In this section, I want to explain what I mean by modularity in .NET and ABP Framework.

Modularity is a software design technique to separate a large solution's code base into smaller, isolated modules that can then be developed independently. There are two main reasons behind modular application development:

  • Reducing complexity: Splitting a large code base into a smaller and isolated set of modules makes it easy to develop and maintain the solution.
  • Reusability: Building a module and reusing it across multiple applications reduces code duplication and saves time.

In the next sections, I will discuss two different modularity levels from technical and design perspectives: class libraries (NuGet packages) and application modules. Let's begin with class libraries.

Class libraries and NuGet packages

Most programming languages and frameworks...