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An Atypical ASP.NET Core 6 Design Patterns Guide - Second Edition

By : Carl-Hugo Marcotte
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An Atypical ASP.NET Core 6 Design Patterns Guide - Second Edition

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By: Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Overview of this book

An Atypical ASP.NET Core 6 Design Patterns Guide, Second Edition approaches programming like playing with LEGO®: snapping small pieces together to create something beautiful. Thoroughly updated for ASP.NET Core 6, with further coverage of microservices patterns, data contracts, and event-driven architecture, this book gives you the tools to build and glue reliable components together to improve your programmatic masterpieces. The chapters are organized based on scale and topic, allowing you to start small and build on a strong base, the same way that you would develop a program. You will begin by exploring basic design patterns, SOLID architectural principles, dependency injection, and other ASP.NET Core 6 mechanisms. You will explore component-scale patterns, and then move to higher level application-scale patterns and techniques to better structure your applications. Finally, you'll advance to the client side to connect the dots with tools like Blazor and make ASP.NET Core a viable full-stack web development framework. You will supplement your learning with practical use cases and best practices, exploring a range of significant Gang of Four (GoF) design patterns along the way. By the end of the book, you will be comfortable combining and implementing patterns in different ways, and crafting software solutions of any scale.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Principles and Methodologies
5
Section 2: Designing for ASP.NET Core
11
Section 3: Designing at Component Scale
15
Section 4: Designing at Application Scale
21
Section 5: Designing the Client Side
25
Acronyms Lexicon
26
Other Books You May Enjoy
27
Index
Appendices

Clean Architecture

Now that we’ve covered many layering approaches, it is time to combine them into Clean Architecture, also known as Hexagonal Architecture, Onion Architecture, Ports and Adapters, and more. Clean Architecture is an evolution of the layers, yet very similar to what we just built. Instead of presentation, domain, and data (or persistence), Clean Architecture suggests UI, Core, and Infrastructure.

As we saw previously, we can design a layer so that it contains abstractions or implementations. Then, when implementations depend only on abstractions, that inverts the flow of dependency. Clean Architecture emphasizes such layers but with its own set of guidance about organizing them.

We also explored the theoretical concept of breaking layers into smaller ones (or multiple projects), thus creating “fractured layers” that are easier to port and reuse. Clean Architecture leverages that concept at the infrastructure layer level.

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