Getting Ready

In this second chapter, we’ll switch from theory to practice: more specifically, we will choose the kind of web application that we want to build and see how we can do it in accordance with the expectations of a typical product owner.

In the second part of this chapter, we’ll start our development journey by setting up our local development environment and creating our first Angular and ASP.NET Core projects.

Here’s a full breakdown of the topics we’re going to cover:

• A full-stack approach: The importance of being able to learn how to design, assemble, and deliver a complete product.
• Multi-page applications (MPAs), single-page applications (SPAs), native web applications (NWAs), and progressive web applications (PWAs): Key features of and the most important differences between the various types of web applications, as well as how well ASP.NET and Angular could relate to each one of them.
• A sample SPA project: What we’re going to do throughout this book.
• Preparing the workspace: How to set up our workstation to achieve our first goal – implementing a simple Hello World boilerplate that will be further extended in the following chapters.

By the end of the chapter, we’ll have everything we need to start our full-stack development journey.