Technical requirements

We'll use the following tools and services in this chapter:

• Visual Studio 2019: We'll use this to edit our ASP.NET Core code. This can be downloaded and installed from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/.
• .NET 5: This can be downloaded from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/5.0.
• Visual Studio Code: We'll use this to edit our React code. This can be downloaded and installed from https://code.visualstudio.com/.
• Node.js and npm: These can be downloaded from https://nodejs.org/. If you already have these installed, make sure that Node.js is at least version 8.2 and that npm is at least version 5.2.
• Microsoft Azure: We will use several Azure app services and SQL databases for our app. An account can be created at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/.
• Q and A: We'll start with the Q and A frontend and backend projects we finished in the last chapter, which are available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing...