Instant Nancy Web Development

Leverage the powerful and lightweight .NET-based Nancy Web Framework

Key Features

Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results
Build web applications and APIs using the Nancy Web Framework
Define routes and handle requests in clean and easy-to-follow code
Use flexible data binding and content negotiation in your Nancy Web APIs to easily support a multitude of client applications

Book DescriptionNancy is a C# web framework which aims to provide you ,the application developer, with an easy path to follow, where things will naturally fall into place and work. Nancy is a powerful, flexible, and lightweight web framework that allows you to get on with your job.

Instant Nancy Web Development will give Readers practical introduction to building, testing, and deploying web applications with Nancy. You will learn how to take full advantage of Nancy to build clean application code, and will see how this code lends itself nicely to test driven development. You will also learn how to hook into Nancy to easily extend the framework.

Instant Nancy Web Development offers you an in-depth exploration of all the major features of the Nancy web framework, from basic routing to deployment in the Cloud, and from model binding to automated tests.

You will learn how to build web applications with Nancy and explore how to build web sites using Razor views. Next, you will learn how to build web based APIs suitable for JavaScript clients, mobile clients, and even desktop applications. In fact, you will learn how to easily combine the two into one.

Finally, you will learn how to leverage Nancy to write clean and maintainable web applications quickly.What you will learn

Set up and handle routes in your Nancy based web applications
Bind request data to your custom model
Send data back to clients marshalled in the format that they prefer
Extend Nancy to handle specialized data formats
Control authentication and authorization in your web applications
Run your web applications in the Cloud
Manage cross- cutting concerns across parts, or the whole of your application
Deal with requests asynchronously

Who this book is forIf you are a .NET oriented web developer who is curious to find out what lies beyond the Microsoft provided frameworks, then this book is for you! It's beneficial to have a good knowledge of C# and .NET, as well as a basic working knowledge of HTTP. If testability is important to you, and you're looking for a lightweight, code focused approach to building web applications, this book offers you all the guidance that you will need.