Summary

This chapter was all about reading data from the ASP.NET back-end and finding a way to properly show it to the browser with the Angular front-end.

We started by using our existing CitiesController to fetch a large number of cities with Angular components; although both frameworks are perfectly able to deal with massive data, we quickly understood that we need to improve the whole data request, response, and render flow process to grant our users a decent user experience.

For this very reason, we chose to adopt the System.Linq.Dynamic.Core .NET package to revamp our server-side business logic and the Angular Material npm package to greatly improve our client-side UI. By combining the powerful features of these two packages, we managed to pull off a bunch of interesting features: paging, sorting, and filtering. During our development journey, we also took the chance to identify, address, and mitigate some important security issues, such as a harmful SQL injection risk...