March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 9m
English
Content preview from Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap
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FOREWORD
The web becomes an increasingly capable platform with each new browser release. Tomorrow’s new features become available to early adopters while yesterday’s stabilize for mass adoption. This ever‐growing toolbox of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript capabilities seems to be accelerating and shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, it’s growing so fast that specialized tooling is required to take advantage of these new features—tooling such as WebPack and Gulp.
The amount of knowledge required to build modern browser applications is illustrated by the new job title “front‐end engineer”—a term that didn’t exist just a few years ago.
In addition to the advances in the web platform, the server‐side technologies powering the web are evolving as well. To provide the best experience for both end‐users and web developers, the server‐side platform must be ultra‐fast, secure, cross‐platform, and cloud scalable, and it must have great tooling.
Most web applications consist of client‐side code running in the browser and server‐side code running on one or more servers. To be a proficient web developer, it is necessary to know enough of both client and server technologies, and that is a big challenge. Because how much is enough, and how much time should we devote to continuously learning?
One way to make it easier for ourselves is to choose the right set of frameworks and tools to build our applications upon. Frameworks are useful because they usually wrap complex platform features into easy‐to‐use ...
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