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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

Listing the product data

I prefer to develop the application functionality feature by feature. This section will explain how to show a list of the products in a data table on the UI.

We will begin by defining a DTO, ProductDto, for the Product entity. Then, we will create an application service method that returns a list of products to the presentation layer. Additionally, we will learn how to map the Product entity to ProductDto automatically.

Before creating the UI, I will show you how to write an Automated Test for the application service. In this way, we will be sure that the application service is working properly before starting the UI development.

Throughout the development, we will explore some benefits of ABP Framework, such as the automatic API controller and dynamic JavaScript Proxy systems.

Finally, we will create a new page, add a data table inside it, get a list of the products from the server, and show it on the UI.

In the next section, we will begin by...