SignalR Blueprints

Einar Ingebrigtsen

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Computer Science
• eBook ISBN:
  9781783983124
• Subtopic: Web Programming
• Index: Computer Science

SignalR Blueprints

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Table of Contents

SignalR Blueprints

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What is the state of the Web?

Personal style

What this book covers

Who this book is for

What you need for this book

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. The Primer

Where are we coming from?

The terminal

Fast forwarding

Completing the circle

SignalR

Terminology

Messaging

Publish/Subscribe

Decoupling

Patterns

Model-View-Controller

Model-View-ViewModel

Command Query Responsibility Segregation

Libraries and frameworks

jQuery

ASP.NET MVC 5

KnockoutJS

Bifrost

Making it look good – using Twitter bootstrap

Tools

Visual Studio 2013

NuGet

Summary

2. Overheating the Discussion

The goal – how to create a basic forum discussion site

Hub

Getting started – creating an MVC template

Creating the landing page for our forum

Setting up the packages

Preparing our web application for SignalR

Making your SignalR hubs available for the client

How to add JavaScript references to views

Creating a simple template mechanism

Securing the forum

How to create your UI for threads on your forum

Creating the thread list – adding a table

Adding a modal for creation of new threads

Enabling the interaction for the view

Creating threads

Our first hub – threads

Enabling the data access for threads

Making the threads become visible

Hooking up the user interaction

The detail view – posts on specific threads

Navigating to a thread to see the posts

Adding the view content for a thread

Adding the thread view logic

Summary

3. Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

The goal – how to bring to life an imagined news site

Getting started – creating an MVC template

Setting up the packages

Making any SignalR hubs available for the client

Creating the models

Putting in place the Data Access Layer

The look and feel

Templating

Hubs

Layout

The landing page

The content

The magic code

The newsroom

Finding the needle in the haystack

Master/detail – navigation

Summary

4. Can You Measure It?

The goal – an imagined dashboard

Decoupling it all

Back to basics

Setting up the packages

Making any SignalR hubs available for the client

Knocking it out of the park

Our single page

The server side of things

The hub

Naively dealing with requests

Bringing it all back to the client

ViewModel

BindingHandler

View

Trying it all out

Summary

5. What Line of Business Are You In?

The goal – a simple line of business

Decoupling – the next level

Proxy generation

Composing the UI

Convention over configuration

Getting assimilated

Getting the packages

The single page

Composing

Structure

Feature

The hub

Register

List

Completing the composition

Concurrency and staleness

Summary

6. An Architectural Taste

The goal – banking

Where does it all start?

Bounded context

Core domain

Supporting domain

Generic domain

Ubiquitous language

Entity

Value object

Aggregate

Repository

Domain events

Domain services

Structure

Command Query Responsibility Segregation

Bifrost

Command

CommandHandler

Validation

Business rules

Security

Events

EventSource

AggregateRoot

EventSubscriber

ReadModel

Query

Proxies

Getting started

Getting the packages

The page

Structure

Accounts overview

Concepts

Read model and queries

Defaults

View and ViewModel

Domain

Command

Events

AggregateRoot

CommandHandler

Back to the frontend

Input validation

Business rules

EventSubscriber

Summary

7. The Three Screens – Mobile First

XAML

Binding

The goal – mobile banking

Getting started

Getting the packages

Plumbing

Bringing back the Web

Extending the hub

Pivoting

Our first ViewModel

Accounts

Overview

Transfer

Putting it all into the composition

What about that SignalR?

Making it a bit more useable

Grand finale – running it all

Summary

8. Putting the X in .NET – Xamarin

The goal – rinse and repeat

Getting started

Getting the packages

Features

Overview

Bringing back the Web

Running things

Summary

9. Debugging or Troubleshooting

Logging

Server

The JavaScript client

The .NET client

Windows Phone 8.x client

Going deeper

Fiddler

Performance counters

The browser

Summary

10. Hosting and Deployment

Self-hosting

The packages

The code

The client

Scaling out

SQL Server

Redis

Azure

Summary

Index

SignalR Blueprints

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Credits

Author

Einar Ingebrigtsen

Reviewers

Dejan Caric

Anup Hariharan Nair

Michael Smith

Commissioning Editor

Usha Iyer

Acquisition Editors

Richard Harvey

James Jones

Content Development Editor

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Technical Editor

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Copy Editors

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Project Coordinator

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Proofreaders

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Indexer

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Production Coordinator

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Cover Work

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About the Author

Einar Ingebrigtsen has been working professionally with software since 1994, ranging from games development on platforms such as the PlayStation, Xbox, and PC to the enterprise line of business application development since 2002. He has always kept his focus on creating great products with great user experiences, putting the user first. Einar received the Microsoft MVP award in October 2008, awarded for his work in the community and in Silverlight space with open source projects such as Balder—a 3D engine for Silverlight. Today, Einar runs a company called Dolittle together with his partners, doing consultancy and building his own products with their own open source projects at the heart of what they do. The clients that Dolittle has had in the last couple of years include NRK (the largest TV broadcaster in Norway), Statoil (a Norwegian oil company), Komplett (the largest e...

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