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ASP.NET Core 5 and React - Second Edition

By : Carl Rippon
Book Image

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

Technical requirements

We will need the following tools in this chapter:

  • Visual Studio Code: We'll use this to edit our React code. This can be downloaded and installed from https://code.visualstudio.com/. If you already have this installed, make sure that it is at least version 1.52.
  • Node.js and npm: These can be downloaded from https://nodejs.org/. If you already have these installed, make sure that Node.js is at least version 8.2 and that npm is at least version 5.2. Installation steps can be found at https://treehouse.github.io/installation-guides/windows/node-windows.html.
  • Babel REPL: We'll use this online tool briefly to explore JSX. This can be found at https://babeljs.io/repl.
  • Q&A: We'll start with the Q&A frontend starter project for this chapter. This is the project we finished in Chapter 2, Creating Decoupled React and ASP.NET 5 Apps, and provides an icon that we need for this chapter...