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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

Summary

In this chapter, we've learned how to work with databases using ABP Framework. ABP standardizes to define entities by providing base classes. It also helps to automatically track change times and the users changing entities, when you derive from audited entity classes.

The repository system provides the fundamental functionalities to read and write entities. You can use LINQ over the repositories for advanced querying possibilities. Also, you can create custom repository classes to work with the underlying data provider directly, hide complex queries behind simple repository interfaces, call stored procedures, and so on.

ABP is database-agnostic, but it provides integration packages with EF Core and MongoDB out of the box. ABP application startup templates come with one of these providers, whichever you prefer.

EF Core is the de facto ORM for the .NET platform, and ABP supports EF Core as a first-class citizen. The application startup template is fine-tuned to...