Hands-On Full：Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core

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Becoming a Full-Stack .NET Developer

The full-stack developer

Full-stack development

Backend fundamentals

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTP is a stateless protocol

HTTP/2

Representational State Transfer

ASP.NET Core

Frontend fundamentals

Hypertext Markup Language

CSS

JavaScript

TypeScript

JavaScript frontend frameworks

Angular

React

Vue.js

Summary

Setting Up Your Development Environment

Visual Studio

Installing Visual Studio Community

Node.js and npm

Installing Node.js

TypeScript

Installing TypeScript

Google Chrome

Fiddler

Installing Fiddler

Summary

Creating a Web Application with ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core overview

.NET Core

Open source

Lightweight and fast

Modular

Host anywhere

Creating an ASP.NET Core application

Default files in an ASP.NET Core project

Predefined project templates

The Startup class

Code execution order

Different startups for different environments

Changing the Startup class name

Serving static files

The content root and web root folders

Setting the server to serve static files

Serving default documents

Configuring the available MIME types

Getting familiar with the ASP.NET Core MVC framework

The MVC pattern

MVC in SPAs

Adding MVC to ASP.NET Core

Controllers

Views

View files and their location

Creating a view

Routing

Adding routes

Adding routes via UseMvc

Adding routes via route attributes

Routing in SPAs

Summary

Building REST APIs with ASP.NET Core Web API

Overview — REST APIs with ASP.NET Core API

Creating a simple API

Inspecting your APIs using Fiddler and Postman

Fiddler

Postman

Routing

Conventional routing

Defining a new route template

Attribute-based routing

Parameterizing the route template

Default values

Constraints

The model

Model binding

Query strings

Message body

Header values

Model validation