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An Atypical ASP.NET Core 6 Design Patterns Guide - Second Edition

By : Carl-Hugo Marcotte
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An Atypical ASP.NET Core 6 Design Patterns Guide - Second Edition

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By: Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Overview of this book

An Atypical ASP.NET Core 6 Design Patterns Guide, Second Edition approaches programming like playing with LEGO®: snapping small pieces together to create something beautiful. Thoroughly updated for ASP.NET Core 6, with further coverage of microservices patterns, data contracts, and event-driven architecture, this book gives you the tools to build and glue reliable components together to improve your programmatic masterpieces. The chapters are organized based on scale and topic, allowing you to start small and build on a strong base, the same way that you would develop a program. You will begin by exploring basic design patterns, SOLID architectural principles, dependency injection, and other ASP.NET Core 6 mechanisms. You will explore component-scale patterns, and then move to higher level application-scale patterns and techniques to better structure your applications. Finally, you'll advance to the client side to connect the dots with tools like Blazor and make ASP.NET Core a viable full-stack web development framework. You will supplement your learning with practical use cases and best practices, exploring a range of significant Gang of Four (GoF) design patterns along the way. By the end of the book, you will be comfortable combining and implementing patterns in different ways, and crafting software solutions of any scale.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Principles and Methodologies
5
Section 2: Designing for ASP.NET Core
11
Section 3: Designing at Component Scale
15
Section 4: Designing at Application Scale
21
Section 5: Designing the Client Side
25
Acronyms Lexicon
26
Other Books You May Enjoy
27
Index
Appendices

The Model View Controller design pattern

Now that we have explored the basics of ASP.NET Core MVC in Chapter 4, The MVC Pattern Using Razor, and REST, it is time to jump into ASP.NET Core web APIs and return data instead of a user interface.

In the past few years, the number of web APIs just exploded to a gazillion; everybody builds APIs nowadays, not because people are blindly following a trend but based on good reasons. Here are a few examples of what makes web APIs so appealing:

  • It is an efficient way of sharing data between systems.
  • It allows interoperability between technologies by dialoguing in universal languages, such as JSON or XML.
  • It allows your backend to be centralized and shared with multiple frontends such as mobile, desktop, and web applications.
  • It allows you to gate (secure, protect, or hide) downstream systems, with APIs acting as gateways.
  • It allows the encapsulation of units of logic in reusable, independent, and possibly...