This book guides you through the entire process of building, deploying, and managing cross-platform web apps with ASP.NET Core. You'll master Microsoft's revolutionary open source ASP.NET Core technology, and learn how to integrate the immense power of MVC, Docker, Azure Web Apps, Visual Studio, C#, JavaScript, and Entity Framework. Working alongside the fictitious development team at Alpine Ski House, you'll witness a four-sprint journey starting with a blank canvas. You'll see the team architect and design their software, adjust to user feedback, and move through builds, testing, deployment, maintenance, and refactoring.

Throughout, you'll discover how to deliver state-of-the-art software faster and more repeatably than ever before.

Build great cross-platform apps using ASP.NET Core and open source frameworks
Go beyond MVC to build a complete ASP.Net Core application
Create builds on Day One and quickly deploy viable products
Integrate Azure support to gain cloud scalability
Run or develop cross-platform solutions on Linux
Establish consistent development environments with Docker
Access data with Entity Framework Core 1.0
Generate HTML views with the updated Razor view engine
Apply the new configuration system and structured logging
Use identity to enforce security and provide rights
Improve testability and maintainability with dependency injection
Use and manage JavaScript in ASP.NET Core environments
Choose and work with package managers to make life easier
Use SASS to write maintainable, attractive CSS
Make the most of tag helpers and other reusable components
Test web apps efficiently using xUnit.net and Jasmine
Design, organise, and refactor apps to smoothly accommodate change