This article shows how an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages application could be setup to use webpack, Typescript and npm to build, and bundle the client js, CSS for development and production. The application uses Bootstrap 4. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCorePagesWebpack The example is setup so that the vendor ( 3rd Party packages ) javascript...

Over the past few years, I have occasionally dreamed about what would be my perfect job.  Of course it would have to involve HTTP APIs. But beyond that, my background in ERP software leaves me longing for solving business problems for users.  My experience at Runscope as a developer advocate reaffirmed my desire to spend time helping other developers. ...

For apps running in Kubernetes, it's particularly important to be storing log messages in a central location. I'd argue that this is important for all apps, whether or not you're using Kubernetes or docker, but the ephemeral nature of pods and containers make the latter cases particularly important. If you're not storing logs from your containers...

IdentityModel has a number of protocol client libraries, e.g. for requesting, refreshing, revoking and introspecting OAuth 2 tokens as well as a client and cache for the OpenID Connect discovery endpoint. While they work fine, the style around libraries that use HTTP has changed a bit recently, e.g.: the lifetime of the HttpClient is currently managed...

This article shows how an ASP.NET Core MVC application can request data using a HTML form so that the browser back button will work. When using a HTTP POST to request data from a server, the back button does not work, because it tries to re-submit the form data. This can be solved by using a HTTP GET, or an AJAX POST. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/MvcDynamicDropdownList...

Some people like to co-locate UI and API endpoints in the same application. I generally prefer to keep them separate, but I acknowledge that certain architecture styles make this conscious decision. Server-side UIs typically use cookies for authentication (or a combination of cookies and OpenID Connect) and APIs should use access tokens – and you want...