Advanced TypeScript Programming Projects

Building an ASP.NET Core Music Library

This chapter marks a change in direction for us. In previous chapters, we concentrated on using TypeScript as our main development language. In this chapter, we are going to look at how we can use TypeScript inside Microsoft's ASP.NET Core in order to learn how to mix ASP.NET Core, C#, and TypeScript to make an artist-search program where we can search for musicians and retrieve details about their music.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Installing Visual Studio
• Understanding why we have ASP.NET Core MVC
• Creating an ASP.NET Core application
• Understanding why we have Program.cs and Startup.cs
• Adding TypeScript support to an ASP.NET application
• Using the fetch promise in TypeScript ...