I am a Microsoft developer. Making an ASP.NET application with authentication to Azure AD is very easy. The traditional multi page application with Vue (as an example) can be created within two minutes (by using the Authentication wizard in Visual Studio). However watching some Angular and NPM videos I liked the CLI/npm approach. So I decided to build my next project using ADAL.js, ASP.NET Core API and Angular 6 (deploy to Azure web app). But I haven't been able to succeed, and have only been met by complexity and issues.
Is the combo of these three technologies just a bad mix, Visual Studio not suited for SPA, or have I just gotten a bad start? Any suggestions on a good setup? I am considering to split the API and front end in two apps, so I can use clean Angular without having to worry about who is building TypeScript (VS or Node) etc. But then I need two web apps, and have to worry about CORS. Any suggestions here, what is a good setup to get started?
I have followed a lot of articles like:
http://www.talkingdotnet.com/how-to-create-an-angular-6-app-with-visual-studio-2017/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/microsoft-adal-angular6
But all of them had issues.
Refer to this Microsoft published GitHub sample. This sample demonstrates the use of ADAL for JavaScript for securing an AngularJS based single page app, implemented with an ASP.NET Web API backend, that calls another ASP.NET Web API using CORS.
Call an Azure AD protected Web API in an AngularJS Single Page App
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I'm getting to be quite proficient at writing websites with a reactjs frontend. So far I've used a .NET Core backend and an SQL database with it, but recently I've gone a bit into switching the .NET stuff out for an ExpressJS backend.
However, for many web pages it can be helpful to have some sort of content management system for the customer to put in custom texts and stuff.
So ... what do you guys suggest I look into for content management? It would preferrably have to work with a reactjs frontend and probably an expressjs backend.
So after too many searches I decided to ask this question.
First of all I'm building a mobile app using angularjs in my website (Online) not localhost. The app is a kind of a CRM based (CRUD mostly).
I have the cordova mobile application ready. I have a few questions here.
Is it acceptable, if I use the website URL directly in the inappbrowser URL (Like an iframe)?
Or. Should I need to put the angularjs files inside the www directory of the cordova app and access the server functions via API?
Which way is preferable? Why?
Will there be any performance differences?
If the No.1 is not a best practice, what is the major drawback on using the inappbrowser?
You can build Hosted Web App in an Apache Cordova:
For this scenario, you use a thin Cordova client (think of it as a web
browser embedded in a native app) that automatically redirects to your
Web site.
See also: Wrapping an existing web application in Cordova.
Other option: PWA.
From Wiki:
Progressive web applications (PWAs) are web applications that load
like regular web pages or websites but can offer the user
functionality such as working offline, push notifications, and device
hardware access traditionally available only to native applications.
PWAs combine the flexibility of the web with the experience of a
native application.
Is it possible to create a SPA using a JavaScript framework like Vue, React or Angular and secure it using Active Directory authentication? I've only seen Forms authentication examples.
Thanks for any help.
Yes. Windows authentication is performed by the web server (IIS or Apache, for example) so that's where you need to set it up. You can search Google for help on setting it up. There are lots of examples.
The framework behind the web server (Vue, React, Angular, etc.) isn't really relevant.
we wanted customize our salesforce application via giving the skype conference link while sending the email from the application itself. the application is completely on visualforce pages and controller so i dont see any appexchange app will help on this.
I have already checked the below links though i could not get any integration apis
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/ucwa/onlinemeetinginvitation_ref
https://ucwa.skype.com/websdk
There are no integration Apis as of now. Only you have to write your own integration logic using Skype for Web SDK. It is a bit complicated SDK and not properly documented or maintained. It has tight coupling with Azure AD and video streaming doesn't work in Chrome/Firefox.
Some integration use cases/examples can be found here
Other relevant information.
https://dev.skype.com/
https://github.com/OfficeDev/skype-docs/tree/master/Skype
We have started to work with serverless technologies specifically with AWS Lambda and API Gateway using the serverless framework. We are working with Auth0 to manage authentication. Question is what is the best front-end technology we should use?
I think that we can build the front-end using S3 and cloudfront. The flexibility of each webpage or a set of webpages without any server sounds fantastic and simple, however I wanted to know of any pros and cons in building out web pages that use standard javascript ajax calls using S3 and cloudfront versus using other front-end technologies such as angularjs or vue?
tldr;: Should we build front-end pages using angularjs, vue, etc. or should we use S3 using pure AJAX calls? What are the pros and cons?
You should find hosting any application that uses a popular SPA framework via S3 is achievable. The fact you are using serverless for the API(s) that will be called from your SPA application makes no difference from the perspective of the SPA (client). The client is referencing a web endpoint only. For secured API endpoints, please look at Auth0's Resource API approach, where you would receive a JWT ID Token and JWT Access Token on successful authentication, and send the JWT Access Token with each request. More information on this on the Auth0 website together with samples illustrating how it all works.
Regarding choice on SPA framework / JS technology to use - here are a few useful links to help getting started:
AngularJS - https://auth0.com/docs/client-platforms/angularjs
AngularJS 2 - https://auth0.com/docs/client-platforms/angular2
EmberJS - https://auth0.com/docs/client-platforms/emberjs
EmberJS 2 - https://auth0.com/docs/client-platforms/ember2js
React - https://auth0.com/docs/client-platforms/react
jQuery - https://auth0.com/docs/client-platforms/jquery
Vanilla JS - https://auth0.com/docs/client-platforms/vanillajs
Hope your project is a success.