Advanced TypeScript Programming Projects

Understanding the application structure

Behavior-wise, the starting point for our application is the Startup class. The purpose of this file is to set up the system during the startup process, so we take care of features such as configuring how cookies will be handled by our application and adding HTTP support. While this class is largely boilerplate in terms of functionality, we will come back to it later on in order to add support for the Discogs client we are going to write. The questions are, where does this functionality get called from? What actually starts our physical application? The answer to these questions is the Program class. If we quickly break this code down, we will see how the startup functionality is brought in and how ...