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ASP.NET Core 2 and Vue.js

By : Stuart Ratcliffe
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Book Image

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)

Improving the UX with add to cart feedback

Our cart is now fully functional, and as such we could leave it as is. However, when clicking the Add to cart button, there is no feedback as to whether or not something happened. Some online shops take you to the shopping cart page as and when you add a product to your cart, and if that's your preferred approach, then it should be a fairly simple change for you to add a page change as part of the button click handler. However, to demonstrate a different approach, we'll use a library called toastr to provide instant feedback to the user that something positive happened.

This section is completely optional, and will have no negative effects on the rest of the application if you choose to skip it for any reason!

First, we need to download a new npm module. The original toastr library has a dependency on jQuery, so instead we&apos...