ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular Fourth Edition

Build robust modern web applications using .NET 5, Entity Framework Core, and Angular 11

▶Book Description
Learning full-stack development calls for knowledge of both front-end and back-end web development. ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular, Fourth Edition will enhance your ability to create, debug, and deploy efficient web applications using ASP.NET Core and Angular. This revised edition includes coverage of the Angular routing module, expanded discussion on the Angular CLI, and detailed instructions for deploying apps on Azure, as well as both Windows and Linux.

Taking care to explain and challenge design choices made throughout the text, Valerio teaches you how to build 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 5) and Jasmine, as well as Karma for Angular. After adding authentication and authorization to your apps, you will explore progressive web applications (PWAs), learning about their technical requirements, testing, and converting SWAs to PWAs.

By the end of this book, you will understand how to tie together the front end and back end to build and deploy secure and robust web applications.

▶What You Will Learn
-Implement a web API interface with ASP.NET Core and consume it with Angular using RxJS observables
-Set up an SQL database server using a local instance or a cloud data store
-Perform C# and TypeScript debugging using Visual Studio 2019
-Create TDD and BDD unit tests using xUnit, Jasmine, and Karma
-Perform DBMS structured logging using third-party providers such as SeriLog
-Deploy web apps to Windows and Linux web servers, or Azure App Service, using IIS, Kestrel, and nginx

▶Key Features
-Updated with the latest features and additions in ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular 11
-Design, build, and deploy a Single Page Application or Progressive Web App
-Adopt a full stack approach to handle data management, Web APIs, application design, testing, SEO, security, and deployment

▶Who This Book Is For
This book is for experienced ASP.NET developers who already possess some familiarity with ASP.NET Core and Angular and are looking to learn how to use them effectively together.</p><p>The fully documented code samples (also available on GitHub) and the step-by-step implementation tutorials make this book easy to follow.

▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Getting Ready, introduces some of the basic concepts of the frameworks that we are going to use throughout the book, as well as the various kinds of web applications that can be created (SPAs, PWAs, native web apps, and more).

- Chapter 2, Looking Around, is a detailed overview of the various back-end and front-end elements provided by the .NET Core and Angular template shipped with Visual Studio 2019, backed up with some high-level explanations of how they can work together in a typical HTTP request-response cycle.

- Chapter 3, Front-End and Back-End Interactions, provides a comprehensive tutorial for building a sample ASP.NET Core and Angular app that provides diagnostic info to the end user by querying health check middleware using a Bootstrap-based Angular client.

- Chapter 4, Data Model with Entity Framework Core, constitutes a journey through Entity Framework Core and its capabilities as an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework, from SQL database deployment (cloud-based and/or local instance) to data model design, including various techniques to read and write data from back-end controllers.

- Chapter 5, Fetching and Displaying Data, covers how to expose Entity Framework Core data using the ASP.NET Core back-end web API, consume that data with Angular, and then show it to end users using the front-end UI.

- Chapter 6, Forms and Data Validation, details how to implement the HTTP PUT and POST methods in back-end web APIs in order to perform insert and update operations with Angular, along with server-side and client-side data validation.

- Chapter 7, Code Tweaks and Data Services, explores some useful refactoring and improvements to strengthen your app's source code and includes an in-depth analysis of Angular's data services to understand why and how to use them.

- Chapter 8, Back-End and Front-End Debugging, looks at how to properly debug the back-end and front-end stacks of a typical web application using the various debugging tools provided by Visual Studio to their full extent.

- Chapter 9, ASP.NET Core and Angular Unit Testing, comprises a detailed review of the Test- Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) development practices and goes into how to define, implement, and perform back-end and front-end unit tests using xUnit, Jasmine, and Karma.

- Chapter 10, Authentication and Authorization, gives you a high-level introduction to the concepts of authentication and authorization and presents a narrow lineup of some of the various techniques, methodologies, and approaches to properly implementing proprietary or thirdparty user identity systems. A practical example of a working ASP.NET Core and Angular authentication mechanism based upon ASP.NET Identity and IdentityServer4 is included.

- Chapter 11, Progressive Web Apps, delves into how to convert an existing SPA into a PWA using service workers, manifest files, and offline caching features.

- Chapter 12, Windows, Linux, and Azure Deployment, teaches you how to deploy the ASP.NET and Angular apps created in the previous chapters and publish them in a cloud-based environment using a Windows Server 2019 or Linux CentOS virtual machine, as well as Azure App Service deployment.