Written on 4/17/2014 in Web development

Last week I was working on the layouts of the pages and they were looking de-licious! Today I'm feeling like a change of pace and development environment. I'll be focusing on the back-end a bit. It's still quite conceptual so don't expect to much. The Vorpal blog should be scalable without too much fuzz. I'll be using a layered approach which is represented here:

I can't say that I'm a big fan of huge solutions for small problems but I will surpress that opinion for The Vorpal blog only. On the data layer I will be using Entity Framework 6 with code first approach. The repositories are home-made / assembled from different sources and the REST API is ASP.Net MVC5 Web Api 2. The Api client is completely custom made. I wrote this a while back to get a more comprehensive understanding of consuming REST services. The website will be ASP.Net MVC5.

I mainly chose these platforms because I want to get The Vorpal blog up and running as fast as possible and I already possess knowledge on these platforms. Later on I plan to port to Angular.js for the front-end framework. The different layers are described in more detail in the next few posts. But before you set this blog on fire, you won't have to wait a few weeks for them. You can find them right here:

Data
Repository
REST API
APICLIENT
WEBSITE

Any rants about used frameworks will be thrown into the garbage ANNIHILATOR.