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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

When to use multi-tenancy

Multi-tenancy is a great pattern to create SaaS solutions, and ABP Framework provides a complete infrastructure to create multi-tenant applications. However, not all applications should be SaaS, and not all SaaS applications should be multi-tenant. ABP's multi-tenancy system has some assumptions, and we've made some design decisions while building it. In this section, I want to talk about these assumptions and decisions to help you to decide whether ABP's multi-tenancy system fits into your solution.

ABP multi-tenant applications should be developed by assuming that each tenant will have a separated and isolated production environment. If you make this assumption, then you will have some restrictions. Here are a few example restrictions:

  • You should not perform database queries from multiple tenants at once. If you do this, you assume that you will have a shared tenant database because it is technically not straightforward to query...