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I recently hosted JetBrains JavaScript Day with guest speaker Fred K. Schott of Astro fame, who spoke about the View Transitions API being introduced in modern browsers. You should watch the video, which will give you a primer for this...
Templating is a common approach to separating logic from presentation, and many options exist within the .NET ecosystem. The most popular is the Razor engine used by ASP.NET Core, but it currently has some dependencies that make it difficult to...
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. You spend months working with UI and UX experts, building what you think is the most optimal means of displaying business information. You sit in a meeting with your stakeholders, demoing what...
The ASP.NET Core technology stack works on the pipeline concept. A user request travels through the pipeline, where you have opportunities to handle the request in various forms. The approach to enhancing the pipeline in ASP.NET Core has been a...
With .NET 8 on the horizon, Minimal APIs continues to grow its offerings, slowly providing a similar feature set to the frameworks before, including ASP.NET Core MVC and Razor Pages. I was surprised when someone in the community (👋 Hi...
The Model-View-Controller pattern is so common that every technology stack has an implementation of it. ASP.NET developers have been working with the pattern since 2009. Here are a few other things popular in 2009 to remind you of your rapid...
Multi-tenancy is a complex topic with a generally understood definition, yet the devil is in the details. From a high level, Multi-tenancy is the idea that a single codebase can support many users in what they perceive as unique-to-them silos....
While ASP.NET Core is a robust web framework, it lacks some core features that make executing a creative-focused site more straightforward. One of those features is the ability to generate a sitemap. If folks can’t find your content, then for...
If you’ve done any frontend development in the past decade, you’ve likely interacted with Bootstrap, a toolkit focused on providing developers with CSS layout rules and components. Additionally, no frontend toolkit is complete with the accompanying JavaScript to make components...
I maintain an ASP.NET Core enhancement library focused on integrating HTMX naturally into your web development workflow. It works great, but I must admit that HTMX is doing much of the heavy lifting regarding developer experience; it’s incredible! That said,...
