This chapter covers
• Creating the SportsStore ASP.NET Core project
• Adding a data model and support for a database
• Displaying a basic product catalog
• Paginating data
• Styling content
Our application, called SportsStore, will follow the classic approach taken by online stores everywhere. I will create an online product catalog that customers can browse by category and page, a shopping cart where users can add and remove products, and a checkout where customers can enter their shipping details. I will also create an administration area that includes create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) facilities for managing the catalog, and I will protect it so that only logged-in administrators can make
changes.
Our goal in this chapter and those that follow is to give you a sense of what real ASP.NET Core development is by creating as realistic an example as possible. I want to focus on ASP.NET Core, of course, so I have simplified the integration with external systems, such as the database, and omitted others entirely, such as payment processing.
We might find the going a little slow as I build up the levels of infrastructure I need, but the initial investment will result in maintainable, extensible, well-structured code with excellent support for unit testing.