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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

MongoDB integration

MongoDB is a popular non-relational document database, which stores data in JSON-like documents rather than traditional row-/column-based tables.

The ABP CLI provides an option to create new applications using MongoDB, as shown here:

abp new FormsApp -d mongodb

If you want to check and change the database connection string, you can look at the appsettings.json file of your application.

The MongoDB Client Package

ABP uses the official MongoDB.Driver NuGet package for MongoDB integration.

In the next chapters, you will learn how to work with ABP's AbpMongoDbContext class to define DbContext objects, perform object-mapping configurations, register DbContext objects with the DI system, and implement custom repositories when you want to extend the generic repositories for your entities.

We begin the MongoDB integration by defining a DbContext class.

Defining DbContexts

The MongoDB driver package doesn't have a DbContext concept like...