Modern Web Development: Understanding domains, technologies, and user experience

1211 Pages·2016·20.84 MB·English

by  Dino Esposito

Modern Web Development:
Understanding domains, technologies, and
user experience
Dino Esposito
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Microsoft Press
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To my wife Silvia.
You make me feel sandy like a clepsydra. I get empty and filled all the time;
but it’s such a thin kind of sand that even when I’m full, without you, I just feel
empty.
—DINO
Contents at a glance
PART I UNDERSTANDING THE DOMAIN
CHAPTER 1 Conducting a thorough domain analysis
CHAPTER 2 Selecting the supporting architecture
CHAPTER 3 UX-driven design
CHAPTER 4 Architectural options for a web solution
CHAPTER 5 The layered architecture
Part II DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 6 ASP.NET state of the art
CHAPTER 7 Whys, wherefores, and technical aspects of ASP.NET Core 1.0
CHAPTER 8 Core of ASP.NET MVC
CHAPTER 9 Core of Bootstrap
CHAPTER 10 Organizing the ASP.NET MVC project
CHAPTER 11 Presenting data
CHAPTER 12 Editing data
CHAPTER 13 Persistence and modeling
Part III USER EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER 14 Creating more interactive views
CHAPTER 15 Pros and cons of responsive design
CHAPTER 16 Making websites mobile-friendly
Contents
Introduction
PART I UNDERSTANDING THE DOMAIN
Chapter 1 Conducting a thorough domain analysis
Domain-driven design to the rescue
Introducing design driven by the domain
Clearing up common misconceptions about DDD
Introducing the ubiquitous language
Creating a vocabulary of domain-specific terms
Keeping business and code in sync
Introducing the bounded context
Discovering bounded contexts
Implementing bounded contexts
Introducing context mapping
Examining relationships between bounded contexts
Introducing event storming
Having unlimited modeling space
Finding events in the domain
Leading the discussion
Summary
Chapter 2 Selecting the supporting architecture
It’s all about business logic
Examining the application logic
Examining the domain logic
Exploring patterns for the business logic
Using a single model
Exploring the elements of an object-oriented domain model
Putting business rules inside
Discovering aggregates
Exploring the role of domain services
Implementing command and query separation
Working with the Command and Query Separation principle
Implementing CQRS
Introducing message-based formulation
Ad-hoc infrastructure
Introducing event sourcing
Summary
Chapter 3 UX-driven design
Why a top-down approach is better than a bottom-up one
Foundation of the bottom-up approach
Planning with a top-down approach
Looking at user experience from an architectural perspective
UX is not UI
Explaining UXDD in three steps
Why UXDD is beneficial to nearly everybody
Summary
Chapter 4 Architectural options for a web solution
Assessing the available web solutions
Deciding on the best framework
Laying out a solution
Examining the role of ASP.NET Core 1.0
Considering ASP.NET as the starting point
Examining the architectural dependencies in ASP.NET Core 1.0
Exploring the reasons to choose ASP.NET Core 1.0
Determining if you should use ASP.NET Web Forms
Examining a common scenario
ASP.NET Web Forms at a glance
What’s still good with Web Forms
Why you should move away from Web Forms
Determining if you should use ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET MVC at a glance
What’s good with ASP.NET MVC
Weak points of ASP.NET MVC
Examining the role of ASP.NET Web API
Moving from WCF to Web API
Comparing ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET MVC
Talking about REST
Using Web API in ASP.NET Core 1.0
Single-page applications
Setting up a SPA
Hybrid SPA
Weak points of a SPA
Summary
Chapter 5 The layered architecture
Beyond classic three-tier systems
Working with a three-tier architecture today
Fifty shades of gray areas
The presentation layer
The user experience
The input model
The view model
The application layer
Entry point in the system’s back end
Orchestration of business processes
The domain layer
The mythical domain model
The equally mythical concept of domain services
A more pragmatic view of domain modeling
The infrastructure layer
Current state storage
Event stores
Caching layers
External services
Summary
PART II DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 6 ASP.NET state of the art
Web flavors
The web could have been different
Classic web is the winner
ASP.NET is feature-complete
No more to add is no more to add
Is it full potential or software obsolescence?
ASP.NET Core 1.0 has no new functions
It’s about the new runtime
It’s about the business model
It’s about the development model
What is the state of ASP.NET?
Chapter 7 Whys, wherefores, and technical aspects of ASP.NET Core 1.0
The background of ASP.NET Core
The cost of a large memory footprint
Reconsidering the cloud as the silver bullet
Making the case for the necessity of a different programming model
The impact on everyday work
The ASP.NET Core runtime at a glance
The DNX host
Hosting web applications in DNX
ASP.NET Core HTTP pipeline
ASP.NET Core for ASP.NET developers
Creating a new project
Application startup
Application settings
Authentication
Other aspects of web programming
Summary
Chapter 8 Core of ASP.NET MVC
Routing incoming requests
Simulating the ASP.NET MVC runtime
Exploring the URL routing HTTP module
Using application routes
Exploring the controller class
Looking at aspects of a controller
Writing controller classes
Processing input data
Manual parameter binding
Model binding
Producing action results
Wrapping results
Returning HTML markup
Returning JSON content
Summary
Chapter 9 Core of Bootstrap
Bootstrap at a glance
LESS and the foundation of Bootstrap
Setting up Bootstrap
Putting Bootstrap into perspective
Responsive layouts
The grid system
Screen-based rendering
Taxonomy of today’s web elements
Restyling basic HTML elements
Restyling list HTML elements
A look at more advanced components
Bootstrap extensions
Autocompletion
Date picking
Custom components
Summary
Chapter 10 Organizing the ASP.NET MVC project
Planning the project solution