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ASP.NET Core 3 and React

By : Carl Rippon
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ASP.NET Core 3 and React

By: Carl Rippon

Overview of this book

Microsoft's ASP.NET Core is a robust and high-performing cross-platform web API framework, and Facebook's React uses declarative JavaScript to drive a rich, interactive user experience on the client-side web. Together, they can be used to build full stack apps with enhanced security and scalability at each layer. This book will start by taking you through React and TypeScript components to build an intuitive single-page application. You’ll understand how to design scalable REST APIs that can integrate with a React-based frontend. You’ll get to grips with the latest features, popular patterns, and tools available in the React ecosystem, including function-based components, React Router, and Redux. The book shows how you can use TypeScript along with React to make the frontend robust and maintainable. You’ll then cover important .NET Core features such as API controllers, attribute routing, and model binding to help you build a sturdy backend. Additionally, you’ll explore API security with ASP.NET Core identity and authorization policies, and write reliable unit tests using both .NET Core and React before you deploy your app to the Azure cloud. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained all the knowledge you need to enhance your C# and JavaScript skills and build full stack, production-ready applications with ASP.NET Core and React.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started
4
Section 2: Building a Frontend with React and TypeScript
9
Section 3: Building an ASP.NET Core Backend
16
Section 4: Moving into Production
20
Assessments

Summary

React Router gives us a comprehensive set of components for managing the navigation between pages in our app. We learned that the top-level component is BrowserRouter, which looks for Route components beneath it where we define what components should be rendered for certain paths. We can use the exact prop to instruct React Router to do a full match rather than a partial match, which it does by default.

RouteComponentProps gives us access to route parameters and query parameters via the match and location objects, respectively. We discovered that React Router doesn't parse query parameters for us, but can use the native JavaScript URLSearchParams function to do this for us. RouteComponentProps also gives us access to a history object, where we can perform navigation programmatically. The Link component allows us to link to different pages declaratively in JSX.

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