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Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core

By : Tamir Dresher, Amir Zuker, Shay Friedman
Book Image

Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core

By: Tamir Dresher, Amir Zuker, Shay Friedman

Overview of this book

Today, full-stack development is the name of the game. Developers who can build complete solutions, including both backend and frontend products, are in great demand in the industry, hence being able to do so a desirable skill. However, embarking on the path to becoming a modern full-stack developer can be overwhelmingly difficult, so the key purpose of this book is to simplify and ease the process. This comprehensive guide will take you through the journey of becoming a full-stack developer in the realm of the web and .NET. It begins by implementing data-oriented RESTful APIs, leveraging ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework. Afterward, it describes the web development field, including its history and future horizons. Then, you’ll build webbased Single-Page Applications (SPAs) by learning about numerous popular technologies, namely TypeScript, Angular, React, and Vue. After that, you’ll learn about additional related concerns involving deployment, hosting, and monitoring by leveraging the cloud; specifically, Azure. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build, deploy, and monitor cloud-based, data-oriented, RESTful APIs, as well as modern web apps, using the most popular frameworks and technologies.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
PacktPub.com
Contributors
Preface
Index

React overview


Facebook's React, a JavaScript framework for building SPAs, is incredibly popular, and has constantly been receiving a lot of attention from the community. Additionally, React spreads out to mobile apps via React Native, as well as 3D and VR via React 360.

React was released to the public in 2013 and has revolutionized the way you build web apps. React is essentially a JavaScript-based view library, focusing on building encapsulated and reusable components, and its format was considered a novel approach at the time.

Similar to Angular, React is highly opinionated, although it focuses on a single aspect of building an app, which is the view engine, that is, components. Along with React comes JSX, enabling you to write the user interface template code combined with the logical code, but more on that later in this chapter.

Building blocks

These are the key building blocks of React:

Following is the description of each block:

  • Components: React enables you to decompose your app's visual...