So far so good; we just set up a working skeleton of what's about to come. Before moving further, let's do a quick recap of what we just did in this chapter.

We briefly described our platforms of choice--ASP.NET Core and Angular--and acknowledged their combined potential in the process of building a modern web application. Then, we chose a Native Web Application with a Single-Page Application approach as the ideal field of choice for testing what our frameworks are able to do (and how to do it).

In an attempt to reproduce a realistic production-case scenario, we also went through the most common SPA features, first from a technical point of view, and then putting ourselves in the shoes of a typical Product Owner and trying to enumerate their expectations. We also made a quick list of everything we need to put together a potentially shippable product featuring all the expected goodies.

Eventually, we did our best to properly set up our development environment; we chose to do that using the default Angular SPA Template shipped with Visual Studio, thus adopting the standard ASP.NET Core approach. Right after that, we also spent some valuable time to look up and understand its core components, how they're working together, and their distinctive roles: the root configuration files, the server-side code, and the client-side code.

Finally, we performed some quick tests to see whether we're ready to hold our ground against what's coming next: setting up an improved request-response cycle, building our own Controllers, defining additional routing strategies, and more.