The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern is inarguably a successful approach to building web applications. The design gained popularity in many tech communities, implemented in frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Django, and Spring. Since April 2, 2009, Microsoft has offered developers the ability to create MVC pattern web applications with the release of ASP.NET MVC. The approach leans heavily on the ideas of convention over configuration, and with conventions come ceremony. The ceremony can come with an overhead not necessary for less complicated apps.
With the release of .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET developers were introduced to Razor Pages, a new approach to building web applications. While it can be reminiscent of WebForms, the framework learns from the decade of experience building web frameworks. The thoughtfulness put into Razor Pages shows with its ability to leverage many of the same features found in ASP.NET MVC.
In this post, we’ll explore an existing ASP.NET MVC application, begin to migrate it to Razor Pages, and see where Razor Pages may not be a good fit. (more…)
