As part of the ASP.NET Core Basics series of posts, JavaScript Services was used to create a couple of front end for a basic contacts API using Aurelia and Angular 2. Theses applications were created a few months ago and JavaScript Services has kept moving since then. This post is going to look at one strategy for taking an application created on an older version of JavaScript Services and update it to match the current version. This post will be following the upgrade of the Angular project from ASP.NET Core Basics repo with the starting point of the code being from this release.
The strategy
One of the considerations when doing this upgrade was getting the changes that happen on the ASP.NET Core side of the application and not just the JavaScript bits. In order to make sure that nothing was missed I decided to use JavaScript Services to generate a new application and use that to compare with the implementations in the existing application.
Create comparison application
This is going to assume JavaScript Services is already installed. If it isn’t this page has instructions or this post has sections that deal with creating a new application using JavaScript Services.
The update
Following is the files that changed during this update. This is also the list of files I would check anytime an upgrade needs to be done.
Angular.csproj ClientApp/boot-client.ts ClientApp/boot-server.ts Program.cs package.json webpack.config.js webpack.config.vendor.js
There were a fair amount of changes in the files listed above and instead of posting the code the differences can be found here. The previous diff didn’t contain the webpack.config files and those diffs can be found here and here.
After all the files have been updated make sure to run the following command from a command prompt in your project directory to make sure webpack has vendor related items regenerated.
webpack --config webpack.config.vendor.js
Wrapping up
This post is a lighter on the details that I do most of the time, but this type of upgrade would just have been a wall of code and not been overly useful and the commits on GitHub are a much better guide to what the upgrade looked like. My feeling is that over time the number of changes going forward may end up being smaller and easier to integrate.
Both the Aurelia and Angular projects have been upgraded and the final version of the code can be found here.