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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

Implementing CD

In this section, we are going to implement a release pipeline in Azure DevOps by implementing a CD process for our app. This process will consist of deploying to the staging environment, followed by the Cypress end-to-end tests being executed before the deployment is promoted to production.

Deploying to staging

Carry out the following steps in the Azure DevOps portal to deploy a build to the staging environment:

  1. In the Pipelines section in the left-hand bar, select Releases, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

    Figure 15.12 – Release pipelines

  2. Click on the New pipeline button.
  3. We will be prompted to select a template for the release pipeline. Let's choose the Azure App Service deployment template and click Apply, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

    Figure 15.13 – Release pipeline template selection

  4. A nice visual representation of the release pipeline will appear, along with a panel...