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ASP.NET Core and Vue.js

By : Devlin Basilan Duldulao
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ASP.NET Core and Vue.js

By: Devlin Basilan Duldulao

Overview of this book

Vue.js 3 is faster and smaller than the previous version, and TypeScript’s full support out of the box makes it a more maintainable and easier-to-use version of Vue.js. Then, there's ASP.NET Core 5, which is the fastest .NET web framework today. Together, Vue.js for the frontend and ASP.NET Core 5 for the backend make a powerful combination. This book follows a hands-on approach to implementing practical methodologies for building robust applications using ASP.NET Core 5 and Vue.js 3. The topics here are not deep dive and the book is intended for busy .NET developers who have limited time and want a quick implementation of a clean architecture with popular libraries. You’ll start by setting up your web app’s backend, guided by clean architecture, command query responsibility segregation (CQRS), mediator pattern, and Entity Framework Core 5. The book then shows you how to build the frontend application using best practices, state management with Vuex, Vuetify UI component libraries, Vuelidate for input validations, lazy loading with Vue Router, and JWT authentication. Later, you’ll focus on testing and deployment. All the tutorials in this book support Windows 10, macOS, and Linux users. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build an enterprise full-stack web app, use the most common npm packages for Vue.js and NuGet packages for ASP.NET Core, and deploy Vue.js and ASP.NET Core to Azure App Service using GitHub Actions.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started
4
Section 2: Backend Development
13
Section 3: Frontend Development
20
Section 4: Testing and Deployment

Starting a project using the Vue CLI

Vue CLI is the standard development tool for starting a Vue.js project. The CLI lets you add different supports in a project, such as support for Babel, ESLint, TypeScript, Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), PostCSS, unit testing, and end-to-end testing.

Make sure you have the npm that we installed in Chapter 2, Setting Up a Development Environment. If you have forgotten to install the npm, you can go to https://nodejs.org/en/ and install the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version of Node.js.

If you weren't able to install the Vue.js CLI in Chapter 2, Setting Up a Development Environment, you can do so now by running the following command:

npm install -g @vue/cli

The preceding command installs the Vue CLI globally. The last part of the npm command is the package name, while -g means globally.

After installing the Vue CLI, let's create our first Vue.js app and build a simple Todo app to try out the common features of the Vue component...