Main Practices for Full-stack Development in a .NET Environment

Devforce
15 de dez. de 2023
2 min de leitura

Atualizado: 19 de out. de 2024

In this article, I will cover the best practices I have adopted when working in .NET environments highlighting design patterns, performance optimizations, and useful tools for Full-stack developers.

Title #1: Design Patterns

Title #2: Performance Optimizations

Title #3: Useful Tools for Full-Stack Developers

Design Patterns

While working in a software development environment, many design patterns can be used for a better structure, maintainability and code efficiency. And I will go through some of these patterns commonly used in a development project.

MVC (Model-View-Controller) Pattern:

This pattern helps us to get separation of concerns, by decoupling the user-interface (View), the data (Model) and the application logic (Controller). In the websites, the Controller is responsible to receive requests, and manage the Model to save and to retrieve data. Then the Controller chooses the View to display and provides it with the Model. Finally the View renders the final page, based on the Model.

Repository Pattern:

By definition the repository pattern is a software design pattern that acts as an intermediary between the business logic and the data storage. It provides a consistent interface for performing CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on data entities while encapsulating the complexities of data access.

Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC):

Dependency Injection is a technique for achieving Inversion of Control (IoC), that means in .NET, it is a built-in part of the framework, along with configuration, logging and the options pattern.

"A dependency is an object that another object depends on."

The results:

The use of an interface or base class to abstract the dependency implementation.
Registration of the dependency in a service container. .NET provides a built-in service container, IServiceProvider. Services are typically registered at the app's start-up and appended to an IServiceCollection. Once all services are added, you use BuildServiceProvider to create the service container.
Injection of the service into the constructor of the class where it's used. The framework takes on the responsibility of creating an instance of the dependency and disposing of it when it's no longer needed.

Example:

builder.Services.AddHostedService<Worker>();
builder.Services.AddSingleton<IMessageWriter, MessageWriter>();

There is a lot of information regarding the Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control on the internet, and the implementation may vary depending on the framework.