Overview
- Peppered with salient, but amusing, anecdotes from the author’s time on the tools
- A one-stop-shop to code, test, and deploy your API, with absolutely no skipping
- Includes complete code examples on GitHub
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book starts with detailing how to set up your development environment, and then introduces a variety of tools and technologies to build, test, and deploy your API. It covers tools such as .NET Core SDK, (Version 3.1), Visual Studio Code, Git, xUnit, Docker, PostgreSQL, Postman, Azure DevOps, Azure, AutoMapper, and many more.
Practical guidance is provided so you can achieve a tangible and valuable outcome, and you also are given a dose of theory on REST (Representational State Transfer), JSON, (JavaScript Object Notation), DTOs (Data Transfer Objects), and the MVC (Model View Controller) architectural pattern.
What You Will Learn
- Build an ASP.NET Core API using C#, test it, and deploy it to Azure
- Understand concepts on Entity Framework Core
- Gain hard-earned secrets, shortcuts, and gotchas throughout the “build along”
- Get comfortable with ASP NET Core Environments
- Be introduced to unit testing, CI/CD pipelines, bearer authentication, and JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
Who This Book Is For
Developers using the Microsoft stack. Some basic understanding of .NET Core is assumed.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Les Jackson, originally from Glasgow, Scotland, lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He has been an IT professional since completing his computer science degree. He holds several industry accreditations, including a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) certification, His mantra is that there is no substitute for experience and passion. In his down time, he enjoys producing content for his popular tutorials on YouTube.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Complete ASP.NET Core 3 API Tutorial
Book Subtitle: Hands-On Building, Testing, and Deploying
Authors: Les Jackson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6255-9
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Les Jackson 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6254-2Published: 27 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6255-9Published: 26 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 461
Number of Illustrations: 101 b/w illustrations, 391 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Web Development, Professional Computing