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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

Creating actions

Actions initiate changes to our store state. In this section, we are going to create functions that create all the actions in our store. We will start by understanding all the actions that will be required in our store.

Understanding the actions in the store

The three processes that will interact with the store are as follows:

  • Fetching and rendering the unanswered questions on the home page
  • Fetching and rendering the question being viewed on the question page
  • Searching questions and showing the matches on the search page

Each process comprises the following steps:

  1. When the process starts, the store's loading state is set to true.
  2. The request to the server is then made.
  3. When the response from the server is received, the data is put into the appropriate place in the store's state and loading is set to false.

Each process has two state changes. This means that each process requires two actions:

  1. An action...