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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

Chapter 2: Setting Up a Development Environment

In the last chapter, you learned about ASP.NET Core in a nutshell and its latest features. The same goes for Vue.js; you had an overview of Vue.js and its most recently added features in Vue.js 3.

This chapter will teach you how to set up your computer's development environment to build backend and frontend web applications. We will go through different IDEs and text editors to write code and make sure everything has been set up before we proceed with the app development.

Installing everything from the beginning will keep us writing code without interruptions.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Installing VS Code, Visual Studio 2019, VS for Mac, and Rider
  • Installing .NET 5 SDK, Node.js, and npm
  • Setting up .NET Core CLI and Vue CLI
  • Installing Postman and Vue DevTool
  • Installing Entity Framework Core tools
  • Installing different database providers
  • Installing Git version control...