Monthly Archives: July 2019

An alternative way to build and bundle Javascript, CSS in ASP.NET Core MVC and Razor Page projects

July 30, 2019 · by · in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, javascript, jQuery, MVC, UI, Validation, Web · 2 Comments

This article shows how Javascript packages, files, CSS files could be built and bundled in an ASP.NET Core MVC or Razor Page application. The Javascript packages are loaded using npm in which most Javascript projects are deployed. No CDNs are used, only local files so that all external URLs, non self URL links can be […]

System Testing ASP.NET Core APIs using XUnit

July 7, 2019 · by · in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, MVC, OAuth2, Security, Web · 1 Comment

This article shows how an ASP.NET Core API could be tested using system tests implemented using XUnit. The API is protected using JWT Bearer token authorization, and the API uses a secure token server to validate the API requests. When running the tests, the access token needs to be requested, and used to access the […]