Web API 2之上的CRUD MVC Web应用程序

Question

I developed a Web API 2 web service, that is providing a lot of endpoints, where currently several pages and modules are asking for information.

This approach is good sinceI'm providing a lot of data in a good way to a lot of different clients.

Now, I'd like to create a simple CRUD page by myself to show this information.

I'd like to start using ASP.NET 5, and I'm start looking for tutorial and resources, but I found info only about EF interaction, that is not my case.

Can you help to collect resources to study and reach my goal?

Thanks, Roberto

Answer 1

I have written an application of exactly this architecture; an ASP.NET 5.0 MVC application using a ASP.NET 4.5 Web API 2 for CRUD operations.

As other folks have said, the API call itself can be achieved via HttpClient.

The way I've created the MVC pages in this scenario before is to use scaffolding against your model (Right click project > Add > New Scaffolded Item > MVC controller etc), but substitute the Entity Framework code in the controller with your own API calls. This way you get the scaffolded views and controller structure.

Answer 2

From your comment if you want to show a responsive web app to manipulate these entities then create a SPA and call the Web API directly. To do this you could use any of the following frameworks:

http://www.angular.js

https://facebook.github.io/react/

http://www.telerik.com/kendo-ui