pluralsight-course-react-aspnet-core

The master branch here is the latest updates to the Pluralsight course published by Peter Kellner in May of 2018 in the master branch

Course Code for Building a Website with React and ASP.NET Core on Pluralsight

This GitHub repo includes the final code for all the modules in the course that develop code. That is modules 2,3,5 and 6. Modules 1,4 and 7 do not have any code associated with them.

Before you start, you should install node on either your Windows or Mac computer (those are the two environments that are tested). Below, in "Getting Started" are the basics to get module 6 up and running as fast as possible.

Getting Started

1. Install Node 10.1.0 with NPM 5.6.
2. Clone this repository. - git clone https://github.com/pkellner/pluralsight-course-react-aspnet-core or download the zip
3. **Set your default directory to which module you want (example: cd m6-add-rest-data-to-server-side-rendering - cd m6-add-rest-data-to-server-side-rendering
4. Install Node Packages with Dependencies. - npm install
5. **Run the web app - npm start Assuming you are in the m6-add-rest-data-to-server-side-rendering directory, this will launch the webpack-dev-server and put you in a browser window running the completed app.

Module Details

To run each of these scripts, cd into the appropriate direct ( example: m2-custom-webpack )

then run the script name as follows:

npm run start-dev

Module 2 - Building a Custom Webpack Configuration for React and Core

You can follow the progression of each section in this module by looking at soure code section by section.

See the /Progressions directory in the base of this repo for more details.

Details of each script in package.json are as follows:

Script Name	Script Description
start-dev	Launches webpack-dev-server to run browser
dev:build-server	Builds the server side rendering react code
dev:build-client	Builds the server side rendering react code
dev:server	Runs the server side rendering code with node
dev:all	Builds client and server javascript and launches node
cleanwwwroot	removes all files from the ASP.NET Core wwwroot directory
copytowwwroot	Copies all files from the build directory to the root of the ASP.NET Core app (/wwwroot)

Module 3 - Integrating Facebook’s create-react-app with ASP.NET Core

Details of each script in package.json are as follows:

Script Name	Script Description
start-js	Normal start but does not build SASS to CSS
start	Includes building SASS files and running the React app
build	Builds the production ready JavaScript bundle
test	Runs all tests in the project (we did not cover this in the course)
build-css	Compiles the SASS files into CSS
watch-css	Monitors SASS files for changes and then builds new CSS
eject	Removes Webconfig management. Expert feature only, copies all configuration files to root of project

Module 5 - Use REST Services from React to ASP.NET Core Endpoints

You can follow the progression of each section in this module by looking at soure code section by section.

See the /Progressions directory in the base of this repo for more details.

This module brings a newly configured ASP.NET Core server that started with an empty server. It ultimately creates a stand alone REST server that uses Entity Frameworks in memory database to supply data. The data comes from the real Silicon Valley Code Camp 2017 speaker and session data. Those JSON files representing that data are embedded as resources and loaded into Entity Framework when there are no other records in the database.

Script Name	Script Description
start	Runs the webpack-dev-server and the json-server for REST data locally
start:devplus	same as start but let's you run it explicitly and not by default
start:dev	Just runs webpack-dev-server by itself
dev:build-server	Builds the server side rendering react code
dev:build-client	Builds the server side rendering react code
dev:server	Runs the server side rendering code with node
dev:all	Builds client and server javascript and launches node
cleanwwwroot	removes all files from the ASP.NET Core wwwroot directory
copytowwwroot	Copies all files from the build directory to the root of the ASP.NET Core app (/wwwroot)
json-server	Launches json-server by itself running with a Node Express server in code

Module 6 - Implementing Server Side Rendering That Includes REST Calls

(very similar scripts to module 5, just the code changes to support REST in html)

You can follow the progression of each section in this module by looking at soure code section by section.

See the /Progressions directory in the base of this repo for more details.

Script Name	Script Description
webpackdev:server	Runs the webpack-dev-server only
start	Runs webpack-dev-server and the json-server
start:devplus	runs in parallel start:dev and json-server
start:dev	same as webpackdev:server
dev:build-server	Builds the server side rendering react code
dev:build-client	Builds the server side rendering react code
dev:server	Runs the server side rendering code with node
dev:all	Builds client and server javascript and launches node
cleanwwwroot	removes all files from the ASP.NET Core wwwroot directory
copytowwwroot	Copies all files from the build directory to the root of the ASP.NET Core app (/wwwroot)
json-server	Launches json-server by itself running with a Node Express server in code

You can follow the progression of each section in this module by looking at soure code section by section.

See the /Progressions directory in the base of this repo for more details.

Configuration File (.env)

In modules 5 and 6, we introduce a configuration file (.env) that let's you specify whether our running in development or production. It also let's you set the base URL for the REST endpoint to pick up speakers and sessions.

The two choices for NODE_ENV are development or production. When set to development, the URL is retrieved from the corresponding environment variable JSONSERVER_RESTURL and when in production PROD_RESTURL.

By default, they are set to http://svcc-react1.azurewebsites.net/rest which happens to be the same ASP.NET Core web site used also in modules 5 and 6 (source code in ../WebApp).

You can see that data actually downloaded by hitting http://svcc-react1.azurewebsites.net/rest/speakers and http://svcc-react1.azurewebsites.net/rest/sessions.