Ask HN: “What JavaScript API/Framework should I use to develop a new .net SPA?”

2 points by louprado 9y ago ↗ HN

I have been assigned to develop a new single page application for a SAAS company. We use .Net for our server-side development and Visual Studio as our IDE.

Legacy browser support is NOT a concern.

Frankly, I think I can do a great job using regular Javascript and jQuery and .Net's MVC framework. But I wonder if it is worth trying Angular2 and Typescript. I am not sure the learning curve is worth it.

Can anyone make a recommendation? Does Microsoft (officially or unofficially) recommend one framework over another ? Thank you.

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micaksica 9y ago ↗

ASP documentation focuses on Knockout.js for MVVM, and Angular for SPA using .NET MVC:

https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/client-side/index.html

nippur72 9y ago ↗

I've written a large .NET SPA application and I feel very comfortable with the following technologies:

On the client: - TypeScript as language (v2.1 for ES5 async/await), strict null checks enabled - VS2015CE or VSCODE as IDE - React for rendering the UI - React-Templates for compiling HTML templates into pure React - React-router for routing - Webpack as module bundler, compiles in background (-w switch)

On the server: - IIS/.NET, limited only to serving the main .html page and to reply REST api (C#). - SQL Server as database engine

Everything is fine and debugging is smooth from Visual Studio. The only impedance mismatch is between server language (C#) and client (TypeScript). I once tried to switch to node.js but the SQL Server support was poor.