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An Atypical ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns Guide

By : Carl-Hugo Marcotte
Book Image

An Atypical ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns Guide

By: Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Overview of this book

Design patterns are a set of solutions to many of the common problems occurring in software development. Knowledge of these design patterns helps developers and professionals to craft software solutions of any scale. ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns starts by exploring basic design patterns, architectural principles, dependency injection, and other ASP.NET Core mechanisms. You’ll explore the component scale as you discover patterns oriented toward small chunks of the software, and then move to application-scale patterns and techniques to understand higher-level patterns and how to structure the application as a whole. The book covers a range of significant GoF (Gangs of Four) design patterns such as strategy, singleton, decorator, facade, and composite. The chapters are organized based on scale and topics, allowing you to start small and build on a strong base, the same way that you would develop a program. With the help of use cases, the book will show you how to combine design patterns to display alternate usage and help you feel comfortable working with a variety of design patterns. Finally, you’ll advance to the client side to connect the dots and make ASP.NET Core a viable full-stack alternative. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to mix and match design patterns and have learned how to think about architecture and how it works.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Section 1: Principles and Methodologies
5
Section 2: Designing for ASP.NET Core
11
Section 3: Designing at Component Scale
15
Section 4: Designing at Application Scale
21
Section 5: Designing the Client Side
25
Acronyms Lexicon

Understanding the web – Request/Response

Before going any further, it is imperative to understand the basic concept of the web. The idea behind HTTP 1.X is that a client sends an HTTP request to a server, and then the server responds to that client. That can sound trivial if you have web development experience. However, it is one of the most important web programming concepts, irrespective of whether you are building web APIs, websites, or complex cloud applications.

Let's reduce an HTTP request lifetime to the following:

  1. The communication starts.
  2. The client sends a request to the server.
  3. The server receives the request.
  4. The server most likely does something (executes some code/logic).
  5. The server responds to the client.
  6. The communication ends.

After that cycle, the server is no longer aware of the client. Moreover, if the client sends another request, the server is not aware that it responded to a request earlier for that same client...