The .NET Core CLI makes it really easy to create a new projects with .NET Core. By running dotnet new react you get a basic .NET Core MVC app setup to serve and build a React app using Create React App. This is great, and I believe is the best way to create a new…

In 2018 Microsoft re-launched VSTS as Azure Devops with a new UI and a bunch of new features. The best new feature in my opinion is that you can create your build configurations in code using YAML. Visual editors can be great but I prefer to put my build definition directly in my repo and…

This article is an update to a previous article where I described how to serve a single page JavaScript app with ASP.NET Core. The reason for the update is that I’ve changed the way that I approach doing this. I think the new approach is easier and it has the benefit of being more performant,…

Create React App is a great way to get started with creating your a JavaScript application with React with no configuration. It is essentially a number of tools (webpack mostly) bundled into one node module that creates and builds your application. In this article I’m going to show you how to build and release this…

I have a love hate relationship with my propensity to volunteer to do things before I might be 100% (or even 50%) ready. On the one hand I love a challenge and the learning that it forces me to do. On the other hand I hate the stress and the ups and downs of impostor…

Unfortunately I feel a lot people looking to get into React get bogged down with all the buzz around Flux or Redux, server rendering, build tools etc… All of which are not actually part of React itself. I thought I’d write a short tutorial to teach you the basics. This is part 1 of 2…