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ASP.NET Core 3 and React

By : Carl Rippon
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ASP.NET Core 3 and React

By: Carl Rippon

Overview of this book

Microsoft's ASP.NET Core is a robust and high-performing cross-platform web API framework, and Facebook's React uses declarative JavaScript to drive a rich, interactive user experience on the client-side web. Together, they can be used to build full stack apps with enhanced security and scalability at each layer. This book will start by taking you through React and TypeScript components to build an intuitive single-page application. You’ll understand how to design scalable REST APIs that can integrate with a React-based frontend. You’ll get to grips with the latest features, popular patterns, and tools available in the React ecosystem, including function-based components, React Router, and Redux. The book shows how you can use TypeScript along with React to make the frontend robust and maintainable. You’ll then cover important .NET Core features such as API controllers, attribute routing, and model binding to help you build a sturdy backend. Additionally, you’ll explore API security with ASP.NET Core identity and authorization policies, and write reliable unit tests using both .NET Core and React before you deploy your app to the Azure cloud. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained all the knowledge you need to enhance your C# and JavaScript skills and build full stack, production-ready applications with ASP.NET Core and React.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started
4
Section 2: Building a Frontend with React and TypeScript
9
Section 3: Building an ASP.NET Core Backend
16
Section 4: Moving into Production
20
Assessments

Summary

In this chapter, we learned that JSX compiles JavaScript nested calls into createElement functions in React, which allows us to mix HTML and JavaScript. We learned that we can create a React component using functions with strongly-typed props passed in as parameters. Now, we know that a prop can be a function, which is how events are handled.

The component state is used to implement behavior when users or other external things interact with it. Due to this, we understand that a component and its children are rerendered when the state is changed and that the memo function can be used to prevent components from rendering unnecessarily.

We also learned that components can be styled using traditional CSS approaches, such as by using Emotion, which helps us scope styles to specific components and arguably helps with component readability.

In the next chapter, we are going...