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ASP.NET Core Essentials

By : Shahed Chowdhuri
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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

Task runners, bundling, and minification using Bower, Grunt, and Gulp


With Visual Studio 2015, Microsoft has introduced tighter integration with client-side package managers and task runners. In order to make the most of these tools, it is advisable to learn about what they do and when to use them.

Why do we need task automation?

You could write code line by line in a basic text editor without any IntelliSense, but you would soon be itching for Visual Studio or a rich IDE to get more work done. This is analogous to performing certain tasks manually, when you could be using automated tools to make your life easier.

Using Bower as your package manager

To work with client-side dependencies, you need to work with a package manager that works well with your development environment. Bower is such a tool.

Instead of using NuGet to install client-side packages such as jQuery, you will be using Bower to obtain JavaScript libraries and CSS frameworks. Instead of waiting for the latest versions of packages...