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ASP.NET Core 2 and Vue.js

By : Stuart Ratcliffe
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ASP.NET Core 2 and Vue.js

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By: Stuart Ratcliffe

Overview of this book

This book will walk you through the process of developing an e-commerce application from start to finish, utilizing an ASP.NET Core web API and Vue.js Single-Page Application (SPA) frontend. We will build the application using a featureslice approach, whereby in each chapter we will add the required frontend and backend changes to complete an entire feature. In the early chapters, we’ll keep things fairly simple to get you started, but by the end of the book, you’ll be utilizing some advanced concepts, such as server-side rendering and continuous integration and deployment. You will learn how to set up and configure a modern development environment for building ASP.NET Core web APIs and Vue.js SPA frontends.You will also learn about how ASP.NET Core differs from its predecessors, and how we can utilize those changes to our benefit. Finally, you will learn the fundamentals of building modern frontend applications using Vue.js, as well as some of the more advanced concepts, which can help make you more productive in your own applications in the future.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Improving the existing UX

As we move into building a real-world application, it's time to start making things look a little nicer by introducing some CSS styling. However, this isn't a book about CSS or web design, so we'll rely on the very popular Bootstrap CSS framework to handle 99% of our styling needs.

Choosing a UX framework

Back in Chapter 2, Setting Up the Development Environment, we removed the default Bootstrap installation included with the project template, and you may now be wondering why. We removed the default installation for three reasons:

  • It had a dependency on jQuery, which in my opinion shouldn't be necessary when creating SPAs with a modern frontend framework such as Vue
  • It was referencing...