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ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular - Fourth Edition

By : Valerio De Sanctis
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ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular - Fourth Edition

By: Valerio De Sanctis

Overview of this book

Learning full-stack development calls for knowledge of both front-end and back-end web development. ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular, Fourth Edition will enhance your ability to create, debug, and deploy efficient web applications using ASP.NET Core and Angular. This revised edition includes coverage of the Angular routing module, expanded discussion on the Angular CLI, and detailed instructions for deploying apps on Azure, as well as both Windows and Linux. Taking care to explain and challenge design choices made throughout the text, Valerio teaches you how to build a data model with Entity Framework Core, alongside utilizing the Entity Core Fluent API and EntityTypeConfiguration class. You’ll learn how to fetch and display data and handle user input with Angular reactive forms and front-end and back-end validators for maximum effect. Later, you will perform advanced debugging and explore the unit testing features provided by xUnit.net (.NET 5) and Jasmine, as well as Karma for Angular. After adding authentication and authorization to your apps, you will explore progressive web applications (PWAs), learning about their technical requirements, testing, and converting SWAs to PWAs. By the end of this book, you will understand how to tie together the front end and back end to build and deploy secure and robust web applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Windows deployment

In this section, we'll learn how to deploy our HealthCheck web application on a Windows 2019 Datacenter edition server hosted on MS Azure.

Here's what we're going to do:

  • Create a new VM on MS Azure using the Windows 2019 Datacenter Edition template and configure it to accept inbound calls to TCP ports 3389 (for Remote Desktop), 80 (for HTTP), and 443 (for HTTPS)
  • Configure the VM by downloading and/or installing all the necessary services and runtimes to host the HealthCheck app
  • Publish the HealthCheck app to the web server we've just set up
  • Test the HealthCheck app from a remote client

Let's get to work!

In this deployment example, we're going to set up a brand-new VM on the MS Azure platform, which requires some additional work; those users who already have a production-ready Windows server should skip the sections related to the VM setup and go directly to the publishing topics...