Preparation First make sure that you have the latest version of node.js installed. The easiest way to do that is to download the installer package from nodejs.org. npm is the node package manager. It is updated more frequently than node itself. To make sure your have the latest version, at the prompt type npm install npm@latest -g. Create-react-app Now change to the root folder where you want the app to live and type npx create-react-app [yourapp] to create the initial app. npx was installed wh...

It took me a while to get my head around the new .NET Standard [https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/master/Documentation/architecture/net-platform-standard.md] which is going to affect the monikers that are going to be used in ASP.NET Core. I felt the need to simplify it as much as possible primarily to help me remember how it works :-) Portable Class Libraries > The .NET Standard can be seen as the next version of portable class libraries (PCLs). The main disadvantage of a PCL is that it...