8Developing Outside of Windows
The first seven chapters of the book covered all the aspects of front‐end development with ASP.NET Core, from the basic setup of a project within Visual Studio to the deployment of the final solution on Azure. But one of the main features for .NET Core, cross‐platform support, has not been shown yet.
This chapter is all about cross‐platform functionality. In fact, the procedures and all the samples used are described using a Mac, but everything can also be applied on a Linux machine or even a Windows machine that doesn’t have Visual Studio installed.
You’ll start your journey by installing ASP.NET Core on a Mac.
INSTALLING .NET CORE ON MACOS
Installing .NET Core on Windows was easy, because it comes with Visual Studio. But on a Mac, a Linux machine, or even on a Windows machine that doesn’t have Visual Studio, the .NET Core framework and SDK have to be installed manually.
You can install the official SDK for macOS, downloading it from the dotnet core web site: https://www.microsoft.com/net/core.
Now to make sure everything is ...
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