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ASP.NET Core 6 and Angular - Fifth Edition

By : Valerio De Sanctis
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ASP.NET Core 6 and Angular - Fifth Edition

By: Valerio De Sanctis

Overview of this book

Every full-stack ninja needs the tools to operate on front-end and back-end application development. This web app development book takes a hands-on, project-based approach to provide you with all the tools and techniques that web developers need to create, debug, and deploy efficient web applications using ASP.NET Core and Angular. The fifth edition has been updated to cover advanced topics such as Minimal APIs, Web APIs with GraphQL, real-time updates with SignalR, and new features in .NET 6 and Angular 13. You begin by building a data model with Entity Framework Core, alongside utilizing the Entity Core Fluent API and EntityTypeConfiguration class. You'll learn how to fetch and display data and handle user input with Angular reactive forms and front-end and back-end validators for maximum effect. Later, you will perform advanced debugging and explore the unit testing features provided by xUnit.net (.NET 6) and Jasmine, as well as Karma for Angular. After adding authentication and authorization to your apps, you will explore progressive web applications, learning about their technical requirements, testing processes, and how to convert a standard web application to a PWA. By the end of this web development book, you will understand how to tie together the front-end and back-end to build and deploy secure and robust web applications.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Progressive Web Apps

In this chapter, we’ll focus on a topic that we just briefly mentioned back in Chapter 2, Getting Ready, when we first talked about the different development patterns for web applications available nowadays: Progressive Web Apps (PWAs).

As a matter of fact, both our HealthCheck and WorldCities apps currently stick to the Single-Page Application (SPA) model, at least for the most part; in the following sections, we’ll see how we can turn them into PWAs by implementing several well-established capabilities required by such a development approach.

As we learned in Chapter 2, Getting Ready, a PWA is a web application that uses a modern web browser’s capabilities to deliver an app-like experience to users. To achieve this, the PWA needs to meet some technical requirements, including (yet not limited to) a Web App Manifest file and a service worker to allow it to work in offline mode and behave just like a mobile app.

More precisely...