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ASP.NET Core Essentials

By : Shahed Chowdhuri
Book Image

ASP.NET Core Essentials

By: Shahed Chowdhuri

Overview of this book

<p>ASP.NET Core is the latest collection of Microsoft’s web application development technologies. When you’re trying to reach a broad spectrum of users with a robust web application, ASP.NET Core is there to help you build that application. With the ability to cater to users on desktop, tablet, or smartphone platforms, you can put together a solution that works well anywhere.</p> <p>This book is what you need to get started developing ASP.NET Core applications was quickly as possible; starting by introducing the software and how it can be used in today’s modern world of web applications and smartphone apps. Walking you through the benefits of a Web API to support both applications and mobile apps to give you a solid understanding of the tech to build upon as you see what ASP.NET Core can do for you.</p> <p>The book wraps up with practical guidelines for the use of database technologies, unit tests, security best practices, and cloud deployments for the real world.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
ASP.NET Core Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Using JavaScript to interact with Web API


There have been a lot of JavaScript frameworks fighting for the affections of web developers worldwide, and a few of them have caught on. In the next few sections, we will learn about AngularJS and KnockoutJS. But first, let's focus on using some basic JavaScript to read and write data to/from your Web API.

The example for this section will use the following files:

  • HTML file with client-side JavaScript to use the Web API

  • Server-side controller class

  • Server-side model class

The following screenshot shows the preceding three files that we need:

We will be dealing with these files in the example in this chapter:

  • The static HTML file is in the wwwroot location of the web application

  • The controller is in the Controllers folder (by convention)

  • The patient model is in the Models folder (by convention)

To visualize what the application looks like, see the following screenshot of the Patient Records App:

Preparing the server-side code

Create a new class file in the...