A collection of 221 posts
I’ve recently been on an HTMX journey, trying to learn more about the library and slowly combining it with my expert-level knowledge of ASP.NET Core. What I’ve found along the way is that using HTMX is a powerful tool that...
HTMX is a JavaScript library designed to work with various HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. Three out of the four methods, excluding the GET method, are meant to cause side effects and mutations on the server: update a...
I’ve been working with my new HTMX.NET library, making it easier for ASP.NET Core developers to incorporate the frontend library into their web solutions. One of the features of HTMX is defining your configuration within a meta tag.
With all the momentum behind frontend frameworks, it’s often easy to forget that server-side rendering (SSR) is a mature approach to delivering fast and reliable user experiences. Unfortunately, one of the most significant drawbacks to frontend development is the experience...
So you’ve decided you needed to use inheritance within your object model but are struggling to serialize all the data present on the instances of the types. In a previous post, I wrote about serializing an interface instances using a...
As technology evolves and we progress as a community, I notice that older blog posts erode in their helpfulness. One of the topics I find myself constantly having to relearn, especially as an OSS author, is the ability to start...
I’ve recently been working with Docker deployments to get my ASP.NET Core applications into the hands of more developers. The whole experience has been generally positive, and it is reminiscent of the early days of Git deployments. Write some code,...
As a developer advocate, part of my job as a developer advocate is to inspire others to work with .NET and JetBrains ReSharper and JetBrains Rider. Thus, to inspire others, I need to be inspired. So this search for creative...
Auth is the most critical part of the modern application stack. The abundance of data breaches signals that it is also challenging to get right. I find the idea of managing identities and secrets scary. I don’t want to be...
I recently worked with Swashbuckle, a .NET package that can generate Swagger 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.0 specifications from existing ASP.NET Core solutions. The benefit of the library is we can write HTTP APIs and get automatically generated documentation.
