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An Atypical ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns Guide

By : Carl-Hugo Marcotte
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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

Summary

Blazor is a great new piece of technology that could bring C# and .NET to a whole new level. In its present state, it is good enough to develop apps with. There are two main models; Server and WebAssembly.

Blazor Server links the client with the server over a SignalR connection allowing the server to push updates to the client whenever needed (such as when a user carries out an action). Blazor WebAssembly (Wasm) is a .NET SPA framework that compiles C# to WebAssembly. It allows .NET code to run in the browser. We can interact with JavaScript using IJSRuntime and vice versa.

Blazor is component-based, meaning that every piece of UI in Blazor is a component, including pages. We explored three ways to create components: C#-only, Razor-only, and a hybrid that combines C# and Razor in two different files. A component can also have its own isolated CSS without the need to worry about conflicts.

We explored the life cycle of a Razor component, which is very simple yet powerful...