Getting Ready

In this chapter, we'll build the basics of our ASP.NET and Angular journey by mixing theoretical coverage of their most relevant features with a practical approach. More specifically, in the first part of this chapter, we'll briefly review the recent history of ASP.NET/.NET Core and Angular frameworks, while in the latter part, we'll learn how to configure our local development environment so we can assemble, build, and test a sample web application boilerplate.

By the end of this chapter, you'll have gained knowledge of the path taken by ASP.NET and Angular to improve web development in the last few years and learned how to properly set up an ASP.NET and Angular web application.

Here are the main topics that we are going to cover:

• The ASP.NET Core revolution: A brief history of ASP.NET Core and Angular's most recent achievements
• A full-stack approach: The importance of being able to learn how to design, assemble, and...