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JavaScript for .NET Developers

By : Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
Book Image

JavaScript for .NET Developers

By: Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

Overview of this book

If you want to improve responsiveness or the UX in your ASP.NET applications, JavaScript can be a life saver. In an age where server-side operations have shifted to the client, being able to handle JavaScript with confidence and fluency is vital for ASP.NET developers. There’s no point trying to fight it, so start learning with this book. Make sure your projects exceed user expectations. Begin by getting stuck into the basics of JavaScript, and explore the language in the context of ASP.NET Core. You’ll then find out how to put the principles into practice, as you learn how to develop a basic ASP.NET application using Angular 2 and TypeScript. You’ll also develop essential skills required to develop responsive apps, with a little help from AJAX, ensuring that you’re building projects that can be easily accessed across different devices. With guidance on Node.js and some neat techniques to test and debug a range of JavaScript libraries in Visual Studio, you’ll soon be well on your way to combining JavaScript with ASP.NET in a way that’s capable of meeting the challenges of modern web development head-on.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JavaScript for .NET Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

MVC with the Express framework


Almost every application consists of numerous pages, and defining all the logic and routing on the main server.js is not practical or maintainable. In this section, we will see how the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern can be implemented with the Express framework. We will develop a simple application to see how controllers and data services can be developed, and how the controller loads the view and injects the model using the Express framework.

MVC pattern

MVC is a software architectural pattern used to separate an application's concerns. The model represents the entity that contains properties to hold information, whereas the controller is used to inject the model into the view and load the view. The controller is also used to store the model in the database, whereas the view is the page that renders the model injected by the controller and uses it wherever needed.

Creating a controller

We will start by creating a simple homeController to render a home page...