Workshop source projects for .NET Fringe 2016

Building Smart Microservice Clients with React, Redux and React-Router

Speakers: Beau Palmquist Jared Schaab

Workshop Abstract:

Building rich client web applications is becoming more and more complex, and with microservice frameworks rising in popularity, you may be wondering what it takes to build a rich microservice client while minimizing complexity. This workshop will demonstrate that React, Redux and React Router provide an elegant solution to that problem.

Required Dev Tools for Workshop Laptop with the following development tools installed Visual Studio 2015 (minimum of Community Edition) Node (5.0+) NPM (3.0+) Client IDE of choice (Atom, Sublime, Brackets, WebStorm, etc.) Workshop Schedule Vanilla JS Applications /w .NET Microservices 9:00 Workshop Overview 9:30 Pull down GitHub repo for the workshop and discuss repo contents 10:00 Discuss underlying .NET microservice framework technology 10:30 Break 10:45 Adding microservices and page navigation to a Vanilla JS project 11:45 Discuss weaknesses of the vanilla JS approach 12:00 Lunch

React/Redux Applications /w .NET Microservices 1:00 Basic React Concepts (v. 15.0.1) 1:15 React Project 2:00 Break 2:15 React-Router Project 2:45 Basics of Redux 3:00 React/Redux project 4:00 Bringing it all together 4:15 Additional topics 4:30 Wrap up & Summary