Programming ASP.NET Core, First edition

PART IV

Frontend

In Part IV, we turn to your application’s front end, introducing technologies and complementary frameworks for building usable and modern presentation layers.

Chapter 10, Designing a Web API, shows how to build true Web APIs with ASP.NET Core to return JSON, XML, or other data. With these techniques, you can solve ubiquitous problems in modern application scenarios where diverse clients continually invoke remote backends to download data or request processing.

In Chapter 11, Posting Data from Client Side, you’ll learn how to post data in ASP.NET Core using JavaScript without the overhead of old-fashioned full-page form refreshes. Next, in Chapter 12, Client-side Data Binding, we’ll cover techniques for refreshing content in a ...