Preface
If your website is dynamic and you have to use some server-side scripting, you can use ASP.NET, and the fact that you are using AngularJS won't make your server-side code more MVC. If you want to be able to structure your server-side application as MVC, you'll rather pick ASP.NET MVC. The learning path aims to help you learn the fundamentals of ASP.NET Core MVC and apply that knowledge to building applications using ASP.NET Core. This book also aims to serve as a solid guide for beginners who want to learn ASP.NET MVC.
The learning path is to demonstrate that it is still possible to develop great web applications from scratch, providing that we use the proper tools and have the patience to understand how we can blend them together to achieve what we want. Luckily enough, the insane amount of additional work required nowadays can be mitigated by a lot of powerful frameworks that make their way through the development scene: we’re talking of serverside runtime environments like ASP.NET and Node.js and also of many client-side frameworks such as Bootstrap, jQuery, React, AngularJS and Angular 2. We chose to focus on two of them – ASP.NET Core to cover the server-side aspects, Angular 2 to deal with the client-side not only for their stunning set of features and elegant design, but also because they happen to have something revolutionary in common: they are both a complete rewrite of their massively-popular previous installments, who played a leading role in their respective field.
It will make you realize the importance for web applications. We will introduce performance improvements along with the trade-offs that they entail. We will strike a balance between premature optimization and inefficient code by taking a scientific and evidence-based approach, focusing on the big problems and avoiding changes that have little impact. This book addresses web application performance-improvement techniques from both a general standpoint (HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2, TCP/IP, database access, compression, I/O, asset optimization, caching, message queuing, and other concerns) and from a C#, ASP.NET Core, and .NET Core perspective. This includes delving into the details of the latest frameworks and demonstrating software design patterns that improve performance. We will highlight common performance pitfalls, which can often occur unnoticed on developer workstations, along with strategies to detect and resolve these issues early. By understanding and addressing challenges upfront, you can avoid nasty surprises when it comes to deployment time.
