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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)

Building a Shopping Cart

With the product catalog complete, it's time to build a shopping cart so that our customers can store the products they intend to purchase. There are a number of ways we can decide to implement a shopping cart, so we'll start by evaluating these options before we start building one. In summary, the topics we'll cover in this chapter are as follows:

  • Installing and configuring Vuex for client-side state management
  • Vuex actions, mutations, and getters
  • Binding component state to a centralized Vuex store
  • Creating custom filters
  • Persisting state to local storage
  • Providing feedback with toast messages