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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

Creating a new solution

ABP Framework provides a pre-built application startup template. There are two ways to create a new solution (project) using this template, which we will explore now.

Downloading the startup solution

You can directly create and download a solution from https://abp.io/get-started. On this page, as shown in the following screenshot, you can easily select the user interface (UI) framework, database provider, and other available options:

Figure 2.1 – Downloading a new solution

It is worth mentioning the options on this page because they directly affect your solution's architecture, structure, and tooling.

In the Project name field is the name of your Visual Studio solution (the .sln file) and the root namespace of your code base.

For Project type, there are two options, as follows:

  • The Module template is used to create reusable application modules.
  • The Application template is used to build web applications...