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ASP.NET Core and Vue.js

By : Devlin Basilan Duldulao
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ASP.NET Core and Vue.js

By: Devlin Basilan Duldulao

Overview of this book

Vue.js 3 is faster and smaller than the previous version, and TypeScript’s full support out of the box makes it a more maintainable and easier-to-use version of Vue.js. Then, there's ASP.NET Core 5, which is the fastest .NET web framework today. Together, Vue.js for the frontend and ASP.NET Core 5 for the backend make a powerful combination. This book follows a hands-on approach to implementing practical methodologies for building robust applications using ASP.NET Core 5 and Vue.js 3. The topics here are not deep dive and the book is intended for busy .NET developers who have limited time and want a quick implementation of a clean architecture with popular libraries. You’ll start by setting up your web app’s backend, guided by clean architecture, command query responsibility segregation (CQRS), mediator pattern, and Entity Framework Core 5. The book then shows you how to build the frontend application using best practices, state management with Vuex, Vuetify UI component libraries, Vuelidate for input validations, lazy loading with Vue Router, and JWT authentication. Later, you’ll focus on testing and deployment. All the tutorials in this book support Windows 10, macOS, and Linux users. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build an enterprise full-stack web app, use the most common npm packages for Vue.js and NuGet packages for ASP.NET Core, and deploy Vue.js and ASP.NET Core to Azure App Service using GitHub Actions.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started
4
Section 2: Backend Development
13
Section 3: Frontend Development
20
Section 4: Testing and Deployment

Understanding unit testing

Unit tests test a unit of an application without external dependencies such as message queues, files, databases, web services, and so on. You can run hundreds of unit tests in just a few seconds because they are cheap to write and quick to execute, hence you can easily verify that each building block in your application is working as expected. Consequently, since you are not testing your class or components with their external dependencies, you can't gain a lot of confidence in your application's reliability. This is where integration tests come into play, which we will talk about later.

In my day-to-day work, I only write tests for complex code that is error-prone runtime code, complex code, and algorithmic logic, and then I put all my effort into integration tests. Anyway, I have other opinions about unit testing, but you will see these later. For now, let's start writing some unit tests using xUnit and FluentAssertions.

Writing unit...