The project we are building in this chapter is quite different from any of the ones we have written so far. This project sees us moving away from pure TypeScript and toward working with mixed programming languages, namely C# and TypeScript, as we see how to incorporate TypeScript into an ASP.NET Core web application. The application itself uses the Discogs music API so that our users can search for artists and retrieve details of their discography and artwork. The search part is accomplished using pure ASP.NET with C#, while the artwork retrieval is accomplished using TypeScript.
As long as you work alongside the code in the GitHub repository, this chapter should take about 3 hours to complete, which will not seem like much as we try out the code together! The finished application will look like this:
So, let's get on with it!
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