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ASP.NET Core 2 and Vue.js

By : Stuart Ratcliffe
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ASP.NET Core 2 and Vue.js

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By: Stuart Ratcliffe

Overview of this book

This book will walk you through the process of developing an e-commerce application from start to finish, utilizing an ASP.NET Core web API and Vue.js Single-Page Application (SPA) frontend. We will build the application using a featureslice approach, whereby in each chapter we will add the required frontend and backend changes to complete an entire feature. In the early chapters, we’ll keep things fairly simple to get you started, but by the end of the book, you’ll be utilizing some advanced concepts, such as server-side rendering and continuous integration and deployment. You will learn how to set up and configure a modern development environment for building ASP.NET Core web APIs and Vue.js SPA frontends.You will also learn about how ASP.NET Core differs from its predecessors, and how we can utilize those changes to our benefit. Finally, you will learn the fundamentals of building modern frontend applications using Vue.js, as well as some of the more advanced concepts, which can help make you more productive in your own applications in the future.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

We've covered a lot of ground in this chapter, so let's have a quick recap.

Building SPA frontends is a complicated process with a lot of moving parts. Configuring everything ourselves manually is not only a very tedious and error-prone process, but also a very complicated one. In that sense, we evaluated our options for generating our project using the dotnet and Vue CLI tools, electing to go with the newly released dotnet CLI template with a Vue.js frontend.

We decided that using TypeScript with Vue was still a little too unstable, and as such refactored the frontend to remove TypeScript and tweak the configuration to expect plain old JavaScript instead. We also made some changes to the backend folder structure by implementing a feature folder approach, rather than the stereotypical Controllers/Models/Views folders.

We set up a database and the associated EF...