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ASP.NET Core 6 and Angular - Fifth Edition

By : Valerio De Sanctis
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ASP.NET Core 6 and Angular - Fifth Edition

By: Valerio De Sanctis

Overview of this book

Every full-stack ninja needs the tools to operate on front-end and back-end application development. This web app development book takes a hands-on, project-based approach to provide you with all the tools and techniques that web developers need to create, debug, and deploy efficient web applications using ASP.NET Core and Angular. The fifth edition has been updated to cover advanced topics such as Minimal APIs, Web APIs with GraphQL, real-time updates with SignalR, and new features in .NET 6 and Angular 13. You begin by building 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 6) and Jasmine, as well as Karma for Angular. After adding authentication and authorization to your apps, you will explore progressive web applications, learning about their technical requirements, testing processes, and how to convert a standard web application to a PWA. By the end of this web development 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 (18 chapters)
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Index

Data services

The two web applications that we have created so far – HealthCheck and WorldCities – both feature front-end to back-end communication between their two projects over the HTTP(S) protocol, and in order to establish such communication, we made good use of the HttpClient class, a built-in Angular HTTP API client shipped with the @angular/common/http package that rests on the XMLHttpRequest interface.

Angular’s HttpClient class has a lot of benefits, including testability features, request and response typed objects, request and response interception, Observable APIs, and streamlined error handling. It can even be used without a data server thanks to the in-memory web API package, which emulates CRUD operations over a RESTful API. We briefly talked about that at the beginning of Chapter 5, Data Model with Entity Framework Core, when we were asking ourselves if we really needed a data server or not (the answer was no, therefore we didn’t use...