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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

Installing a database provider

EF Core can use several different databases by using NuGet libraries as plugin database providers. You can find providers for MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle DB, and SQLite.

Since installing any SQL database server can be cumbersome, you will use SQLite, which also has the same query commands you would use in other databases. Entity Framework, being an ORM, handles all the compatibility of the query commands across different databases.

SQLite does not require a database server to run it and runs on Windows, Macbook, and Linux without any hassle. The easy setup and portability of SQLite make the perfect fit for your database provider while learning about EF Core and DbContext.

So what software do you need now? You can download and install DB Browser for SQLite from https://sqlitebrowser.org/ or SQLiteStudio from https://sqlitestudio.pl/, which is both cross-platform and open source.

Important note

Installing a database server in...