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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
Book Image

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Using and creating npm modules


Node.js (https://nodejs.org/en/) is an asynchronous, monothread web server built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. It executes server-side, JavaScript-compiled code, and it is event based, like JavaScript.

The npm (https://www.npmjs.com/) manages the Node.js package ecosystem composed of open source JavaScript libraries. We will use npm using the command line and install all the node packages or modules in this way.

We can also use npm as a fast-build pipeline to develop, test, minify, and deploy our apps.

In this recipe, we will learn how to create and publish our own node package.

Getting ready

The installation of Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition includes the installation of Node.js, which is the IDE we will use during the processes described in this book. If, for some reason, Node.js is not installed with Visual Studio 2015, we can install it by going to the Node.js download page at https://nodejs.org/en/download/. The npm will be installed with Node.js:

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