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ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5

By : Valerio De Sanctis
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ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5

By: Valerio De Sanctis

Overview of this book

Become fluent in both frontend and backend web development by combining the impressive capabilities of ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5 from project setup right through the deployment phase. Full-stack web development means being able to work on both the frontend and backend portions of an application. The frontend is the part that users will see or interact with, while the backend is the underlying engine, that handles the logical flow: server configuration, data storage and retrieval, database interactions, user authentication, and more. Use the ASP.NET Core MVC framework to implement the backend with API calls and server-side routing. Learn how to put the frontend together using top-notch Angular 5 features such as two-way binding, Observables, and Dependency Injection, build the Data Model with Entity Framework Core, style the frontend with CSS/LESS for a responsive and mobile-friendly UI, handle user input with Forms and Validators, explore different authentication techniques, including the support for third-party OAuth2 providers such as Facebook, and deploy the application using Windows Server, SQL Server, and the IIS/Kestrel reverse proxy.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Implementing LESS


LESS happens to be written in JavaScript, so installing it can be as easy as downloading the official less.js JavaScript library, linking it to our /Views/Home/Index.cshtml page, and letting its magic work without having to set up anything else.

Should we do that, then? Not a chance. As we said earlier, delegating the compilation task on the client side will be highly inefficient, especially in a client-intensive Angular-based SPA. Not to mention the fact that we already have Webpack that will automatically compile, optimize, and pack all our CSS classes together in a single file.

Given our scenario, the best thing we can possibly do without changing our current Angular files and Webpack configuration is the following:

  1. Install the aforementioned LESS Compiler extension tool and configure it to automatically build LESS files.
  2. Rename all our existing CSS files with LESS files with the same name, as CSS files are also LESS files.
  3. Update the existing code to take full advantage...