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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

Setting up the .NET Core CLI and Vue CLI

The .NET Core CLI is the cross-platform command-line interface for writing, building, running, and publishing .NET Core applications. The .NET Core SDK installation also installs the .NET Core CLI behind the scenes.

Vue CLI, on the other hand, is the standard tooling for developing Vue.js applications. You will use Vue CLI when creating a project and adding third-party libraries such as the Vue.js UI library and Vue.js state management library. To install the Vue.js CLI, just run the npm install -g @vue/cli command, which will install the Vue.js CLI globally on your machine.

You will be able to use Vue CLI in Chapter 10, Performance Enhancement with Redis.

Now you have learned what the .NET Core CLI and Vue CLI are and how they can speed up your development, and you have experienced installing them.

In the next section, you will install Postman, a tool for testing APIs, and Vue DevTool, a browser extension for Vue.js apps.