We'll use the following tools in this chapter:
- Visual Studio 2019: We'll use this to edit our ASP.NET Core code. This can be downloaded and installed from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/.
- .NET Core 3.0: This can be downloaded and installed from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core.
- SQL Server 2017 Express Edition: We'll use this for our database. This can be downloaded and installed from https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/sql-server/sql-server-editions-express.
- SQL Server Management Studio: We'll use this to create our database. This can be downloaded and installed from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms?view=sql-server-2017.
- Q and A: We'll start with the Q and A backend project we created and finished in Chapter 2, Creating Decoupled React and ASP.NET Core Apps. This is available on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/ASP.NET-Core-3-and-React-17.
All of the code snippets in this chapter can be found online at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/ASP.NET-Core-3-and-React-17. To restore code from a chapter, the source code repository can be downloaded and the relevant folder opened in the relevant editor. If the code is frontend code, then npm install can be entered in the Terminal to restore the dependencies.
Check out the following video to see the code in action: