Summary

We spent some time putting the standard application data flow under our lens--a two-way communication pattern between the server and their clients, built upon the HTTP protocol. We acknowledged the fact that we'll mostly be dealing with JSON-serializable object such as Quizzes, so we chose to equip ourselves with a QuizViewModel server-side class, along with a QuizController that will actively use it to expose the data to the client.

We started building our MVC6-based Web API interface by implementing a number of methods required to create the client-side UI; we routed the requests to them using a custom set of Attribute-based routing rules, which seemed to be the best choice for our specific scenario.

While we were there, we also ...

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