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Hosting Vue in ASP.NET Core: A Different Take
In the several years that I've been developing and teaching Vue, I've tried a lot of different ways to make ASP.NET Core and Vue play nice with each other. One of the strategies that I've seen employed (especially with Angular and React) is the Spa Framework Extensions out of Microsoft. Because Vue didn't work out of the box (or have a template) I dismissed this approach for a long time. Now that the platform has matured and there is an open source extension for Vue,
I thought I'd revisit it. Though I still think it's not exactly the right approach. Let's see why.
Originally, I thought the fix was to just deal with it separately. That meant opening it in VS Code or just using the command-line to run the project. I wanted something more integrated and I think I found a solution I don't mind.
The Maintainers: Dennis Doomen and FluentAssertions
In this series, I'll be interviewing Open Source Maintainers and talk about what open source means to them and why they do it. This time I talk to Dennis Doomen of FluentAssertions.
He shares with us the ups and downs of maintaining a long project and why he got into open source to begin with. Don't forget to subscribe if you like the series, we have got another five episodes coming!
This episode:
The Maintainers: Nicholas Blumhardt, Autofac and Serilog
Last week I released a new episode of my "The Maintainers" video series. This time I talk with Nicholas Blumhardt of Autofac and Serilog fame.
His experience developing these libraries to explore new ideas is an interesting take. The video also talks about how he helps manage projects with so many sub-projects (e.g. Serilog's support for so many syncs).
I hope you enjoy it!
Vue 3: To Vuex or Not to Vuex
I've been digging into Vue 3 a lot lately. One topic that a lot of people seem to be discussing whether to use Vuex or not in Vue's Composition API (that is prominent in Vue 3).
After looking and prototyping some of these options, I wanted to share my opinions. In this post, I'll review different strategies (including Vuex) and talk about the pros and the cons of each.
I started out with a simple Vue app, fresh from the Vue CLI. It's using Vuex and the Router via Vue 3 (RC 9 at the time of writing of this post). You can find the project on Github if you want to play with it:
Vue 3 and Validation with the Class-Validator
I've been working with Vue 3 Beta and RC (currently in RC5) and early on I needed some validation but the Vue stalwards of vuelidate and vee-validate weren't working with the Composition API early on. What was I do to?
After some searching I ran into class-validator library. It got me thinking about how to separate the validation from the UI like I usually do in the server.
I thought I'd run you though a little example. If you want to take a look at the project, I have an example on GitHub with tags for before and after:
The Maintainers: Shaun Walker and DotNetNuke
The next episode is now available! This time I'm talking to Shaun Walker. He's the developer responsible for the long-lived open source project, DotNetNuke! He's also created a new framework called Oqtane for Blazor.
He's been in the Microsoft-Open Source space for longer than almost anyone. We talk about being the maintainer for a project for 14 years, what "maintainer fatigue" is, and how being a maintainer has changed since 2002!
I hope you like it!
.NET Core Console Apps - A Better Way?
[UPDATE] After reviewing some of the code and talking with commenters, I agree that using HostServices for console apps is a bad idea. I've refactored this to use the host but not the HostService. I believe that the entire host is still useful for configuration, logging, and DI. See below for the latest changes:
I was at a customer site last week and a lot of their integration code is a set of console apps that are run on timers to import and export data. This isn't an uncommon use-case.
I've got a couple of these lying around myself. I realized that I didn't know of a good exemplar of doing simple console apps using .NET Core in a way that is closer to ASP.NET Core (e.g. dependency injection, lifetime management, cancellation, etc.). So I decided to re-write an old console app I have.
The Maintainers: Brad Wilson and xUnit
I'm continuing the series out open source developers. This week I talk with Brad Wilson of Microsoft about his history with developing xUnit.
We talk about how he does this project while still holding on to a full-time job. He also delves into how CodePlex, OuterCurve, and the .NET Foundation has helped him build xUnit and maintain it all these years.
I hope you like it!
A New Video Series: The Maintainers
I know you've heard this before, but I'm starting yet another video series Don't worry the Rants are continuing soon, just didn't feel right to complain during COVID-19 too much.
This new series is all about the open source projects you use every day. I am interviewing people who maintain those projects. I hope to get your favorite developers to talk about why Open Source is so important to them.
In this first episode, I talk with Jimmy Bogard about AutoMapper and how he built it so many years ago. I hope you like it!
Vue 3 Beta in 10 Minutes
I've been digging into Vue 3's beta for a while now. I like the new composition API, but it looks like there weren't that many quickstarts for getting a Vue 3 project going.
I decided to make a quick video to help you get started with it. The way that I create the project might change once Vue 3 gets to RC, but at least for two weeks, this should help some of you who want to get ahead of the curve. View it here: