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Create a React app in 5 steps using dotnet cli

Earlier I posted about creating an Angular 5 app in 5 steps using dotnet cli based on the new release candidate version of Single-Page Application templates. These templates allow developers to create SPA application based on Angular, React, and React with Redux. At the time of writing this post, the final version is scheduled to release in Early 2018. This post shows how to create a React app in 5 steps using dotnet cli. Read More

Define a custom environment in ASP.NET Core

One of the cool features of ASP.NET Core is, Hosting Environment Management. It makes life easy for the developers, while dealing with multiple environments. Previously, the developers have to build the application differently for each environment (Staging, UAT, Production) due to dependency on config file sections and the preprocessor directive applicable at compile time. It’s a time-consuming and painful process. ASP.NET Core takes a different approach and offers a new way to save developers from all this hassle. Read More

Tools for bundling and minification in ASP.NET Core

Tools for bundling and minification in ASP.NET Core

Bundling and minification improves the speed and rendering performance of any web application. Bundling combines multiple JavaScript or CSS files into a single file where Minification reduces the size of the JavaScript or CSS file by removing white space and commented code without altering functionality. This not only reduces the number of requests to the server, also reduces the size of data transfer from the server to the browser. Both the techniques when used together can help in improving the performance of your web app. Bundling and minification can be done at design time and also at runtime. This post talks about 6 tools for bundling and minification in ASP.NET Core. Read More

How to Implement single authorization policy in ASP.NET Core 2.0

Along with role-based and claim based authorization, ASP.NET Core also supports the policy-based authorization. A policy is nothing but a collection of requirements with different data parameters to evaluate the user Identity. Read more about the policy-based authorization here. This short post shows how to implement single authorization policy in ASP.NET Core 2.0 application. Once implemented, the policy becomes global and applicable to the whole application. Read More

How to create an Angular 4 app with Visual Studio 2017

Configuring and creating angular apps with Visual Studio is not straightforward as it requires some manual configuration settings and some addition of .config files. It would be nice to have a ready-made template which would take this pain away and save the time. With Visual Studio 2017, a template is available for creating and running sample Angular application. The template is good enough to get you started with Angular. This post talks about how to create an Angular 4 App with Visual Studio 2017 and how to extend it with a simple example.
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