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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

Getting familiar with the ASP.NET Core MVC framework


ASP.NET Core MVC is a web development framework for developing traditional web applications. It is based on the MVC architectural pattern that separates the code into three layers: models, views, and controllers.

The MVC pattern

The MVC pattern divides the application into three separated layers — models, views, and controllers — each with different responsibilities:

  • Models: Responsible for data, retrieving it from data storage, and passing it on throughout the other layers of the application.
  • Views: Responsible for generating the output of the application, mainly in HTML documents.
  • Controllers: The glue between all the application layers. Controllers react on user requests, ask for data from the model layer, and pass the needed information to the view to generate an output.

Additionally, ASP.NET Core MVC applications rely on another component: the request router. This component is responsible for understanding the request target, usually by...