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ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5

By : Valerio De Sanctis
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ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5

By: Valerio De Sanctis

Overview of this book

Become fluent in both frontend and backend web development by combining the impressive capabilities of ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5 from project setup right through the deployment phase. Full-stack web development means being able to work on both the frontend and backend portions of an application. The frontend is the part that users will see or interact with, while the backend is the underlying engine, that handles the logical flow: server configuration, data storage and retrieval, database interactions, user authentication, and more. Use the ASP.NET Core MVC framework to implement the backend with API calls and server-side routing. Learn how to put the frontend together using top-notch Angular 5 features such as two-way binding, Observables, and Dependency Injection, build the Data Model with Entity Framework Core, style the frontend with CSS/LESS for a responsive and mobile-friendly UI, handle user input with Forms and Validators, explore different authentication techniques, including the support for third-party OAuth2 providers such as Facebook, and deploy the application using Windows Server, SQL Server, and the IIS/Kestrel reverse proxy.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Working with Bootstrap


Luckily enough, Bootstrap 3.3.7--the latest stable release at the time of writing--is already installed in our project, thanks to the ASP.NET Core MVC with Angular template we chose to use back in Chapter 1, Getting Ready. Whoever knows how it looks can easily understand how it couldn't be otherwise, since its classes are being used anywhere in our Angular HTML templates!

Note

For those who'll ask why we didn't use Bootstrap 4 here, at the time of writing, the v4 is still in alpha (4.0.0.alpha6) and is still subject to a relevant amount of breaking API changes. Although there are a lot of early adopters willing to use it these days, there's no way we can adopt it within this book. The reader is encouraged to try it out as soon as he'll think it's time, as long as he won't forget the disclaimers we wrote back in Chapter 1, Getting Ready.

Changing the theme

To be precise, we're currently using the Bootstrap default theme; the first thing we can do is to change it with something...