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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

GraphQL versus REST

As we said early on, GraphQL is an open source data query and manipulation language that provides a set of rules and standards to create efficient and flexible Web APIs. The language was developed by Facebook in 2012 as an internal project, before being released to the public in 2015, immediately getting the attention of many developers due to its innovative approach.

Comparing GraphQL with REST is almost inevitable since the former has been developed with the precise goal of solving some of the most notable REST drawbacks: for that very reason, the best thing we can do to understand the pros and cons of these two approaches is to briefly summarize the distinctive features of each one of them, starting with the technology that came first.

REST

Representational State Transfer, better known as REST, is an architectural style specifically designed for network-based applications that use the standard HTTP get post put and delete request methods to access...