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ASP.NET Core 5 and React - Second Edition

By : Carl Rippon
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ASP.NET Core 5 and React - Second Edition

By: Carl Rippon

Overview of this book

Microsoft’s .NET framework is a robust server-side framework, now even more powerful thanks to the recent unification of the Microsoft ecosystem with the .NET 5 framework. This updated second edition addresses these changes in the .NET framework and the latest release of React. The book starts by taking you through React and TypeScript components for building an intuitive single-page application and then shows you how to design scalable REST APIs that can integrate with a React-based frontend. Next, 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. As you progress through the chapters, you'll learn how to use React with TypeScript to make the frontend robust and maintainable and cover key ASP.NET 5 features such as API controllers, attribute routing, and model binding to build a sturdy backend. In addition to this, you’ll explore API security with ASP.NET 5 identity and authorization policies and write reliable unit tests using both .NET and React, before deploying your app on Azure. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the knowledge you need to enhance your C# and JavaScript skills and build full-stack, production-ready applications with ASP.NET 5 and React.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started
4
Section 2: Building a Frontend with React and TypeScript
10
Section 3: Building an ASP.NET Backend
16
Section 4: Moving into Production

Chapter 15: Implementing CI and CD with Azure DevOps

In this chapter, we are going to implement Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) for our Q&A app using Azure DevOps. We'll start by understanding exactly what CI and CD are before getting into Azure DevOps. 

In Azure DevOps, we'll implement CI for the frontend and backend using a build pipeline. The CI process will be triggered when developers push code to our source code repository. Then, we'll implement CD for the frontend and backend using a release pipeline that will be automatically triggered when a CI build completes successfully. The release pipeline will do a deployment to the staging environment automatically, run our backend integration tests, and then promote the staging deployment to production.

By the end of this chapter, we'll have a robust process of delivering features to our users incredibly quickly with a...