ASP.NET Core Application Development: Building an application in four sprints (Developer Reference) / Chambers, James

Master ASP.NET Core hands-on: from architecture through deployment and beyond

This book guides you through the entire process of building, deploying, and managing cross-platform web apps with ASP.NET Core. You ll master Microsoft s revolutionary open source ASP.NET Core technology, and learn how to integrate the immense power of MVC, Docker, Azure Web Apps, Visual Studio, C#, JavaScript, and Entity Framework. Working alongside the fictitious development team at Alpine Ski House, you ll witness a four-sprint journey starting with a blank canvas. You ll see the team architect and design their software, adjust to user feedback, and move through builds, testing, deployment, maintenance, and refactoring.

Throughout, you ll discover how to deliver state-of-the-art software faster and more repeatably than ever before.

Three leading Microsoft MVPs show how to:

Build great cross-platform apps using ASP.NET Core and open source frameworks

Go beyond MVC to build a complete ASP.Net Core application

Create builds on Day One and quickly deploy viable products

Integrate Azure support to gain cloud scalability

Run or develop cross-platform solutions on Linux

Establish consistent development environments with Docker

Access data with Entity Framework Core 1.0

Generate HTML views with the updated Razor view engine

Apply the new configuration system and structured logging

Use identity to enforce security and provide rights

Improve testability and maintainability with dependency injection

Use and manage JavaScript in ASP.NET Core environments

Choose and work with package managers to make life easier

Use SASS to write maintainable, attractive CSS

Make the most of tag helpers and other reusable components

Test web apps efficiently using xUnit.net and Jasmine

Design, organize, and refactor apps to smoothly accommodate change

Get all code samples, including complete apps, at: https://aka.ms/ASPCoreAppDev/downloads