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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

Testing controllers with Swagger UI

We've built controllers and run the application, but we haven't tested it yet, right? In this section, we will send GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests to TourList controller.

First of all, make sure that you are running the application by going to the Web Api project and running this command:

dotnet run

Now check your Swagger UI by going to the link https://localhost:5001/swagger/index.html while the application is running.

You will see the TourLists and TourPackages endpoints. The Swagger UI is showing you the documentation of the HTTP methods for each controller. There are GET, POST, DELETE, and PUT methods ready to be tried out:

Figure 5.3 – Swagger UI

The following screenshot shows the schemas of the application, which are also generated for you by Swagger UI:

Figure 5.4 – Schemas in Swagger UI

Now let's try the GET method of the TourLists controller....