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ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5

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

By: Valerio De Sanctis, Jürgen Gutsch

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

Proprietary auth with .NET Core


The authentication patterns made available by ASP.NET Core are basically the same as supported by the previous versions of ASP.NET:

  • No authentication, if we don't feel like implementing anything or if we want to use (or develop) a self-made auth interface without relying upon the ASP.NET Core Identity system
  • Individual user accounts, when we set up an internal database to store user data using the standard ASP.NET Identity interface
  • Azure Active Directory, which implies using a token-based set of API calls handled by the Azure AD Authentication Library (ADAL)
  • Windows authentication, only viable for local-scope applications within Windows domains or Active Directory trees

All these approaches--excluding the first one--are handled by ASP.NET Core Identity, a membership system that allows us to add authentication and authorization functionalities to our application. With ASP.NET Core Identity, we can easily implement a login mechanism that will allow our users to...