With our development environment set up and ready to go, it's time to start scaffolding the skeleton of an application. In summary, the topics we are going to cover in this chapter are as follows:
- Evaluating our options for generating a project
- A brief introduction to webpack
- Scaffolding a project with the dotnet CLI
- Refactoring the default template to meet our needs and preferences
- Setting up the database
- Testing the completed setup
Before we do anything else, we need to make a decision on how we want to generate the barebones structure of our project. We have a number of options available to us, including CLI tools from both Microsoft and Vue that have commands dedicated to generating default project structures. On the one hand, we can use each CLI tool independently to generate two separate applications, then try and modify the configuration...