Real-Time Web Application Development: With ASP.NET Core, SignalR, Docker, and Azure

by Rami Vemula

Design, develop, and deploy a real-world web application by leveraging modern open source technologies. This book shows you how to use ASP.NET Core to build cross-platform web applications along with SignalR to enrich the application by enabling real-time communication between server and clients. You will use Docker to containerize your application, integrate with GitHub to package the application, and provide continuous deployment to Azure’s IaaS platform. Along the way, Real-Time Web Application Development covers topics including designing a Materialize CSS theme, using a test-driven development approach with xUnit.net, and securing your application with the OAuth 2.0 protocol. To further your understanding of the technology, you will learn logging and exception handling; navigation using view components; and how to work with forms and validations. The rich code samples from this book can be used to retrofit or upgrade existing ASP.NET Core applications.What You Will LearnDesign and develop a real-world web application Implement security and data storage with OAuth2 and Azure Table StorageOrchestrate real-time notifications through SignalRUse GitHub and Travis CI for continuous integration of code Master Docker containerization and continuous deployment with Docker Cloud to Azure Linux virtual machinesWho This Book Is ForDevelopers and software engineers interested in learning an end-to-end approach to application development using Microsoft technologies. 

983 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 1, 2017

Reviews

[Kasper Hermansen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book because as a less experienced programmer I needed some reference material for a real example of a full-stack web dev project, this book gave me that. Though it has some serious flaws, much of the code is given, nearly without any explanations (which the author does mention) however, it still feels like just copyrighting the code examples, if the reader wants to follow along. This book, however, ends up with a nice application though with a bit of an unorthodox toolset. I would recommend people who consider this book, to alongside reading this book research the topics themselves, as not much explanation is given.