Routing is one of the most important concepts in the ASP.NET MVC application, as it takes care of incoming requests and maps them to the appropriate controller's actions.

In this chapter, we will try to apply what we have learned and start building a simplified real-world application. We will begin the development of a simple shopping cart application called Rest Buy. We call it Rest Buy because we will also try to employ RESTful tactics during the development.

In the Rest Buy project, we will make use of ASP.NET Core MVC along with Entity Framework and SQL Server, since this is the topic of the book, and try to employ a RESTful strategy. You will have a better idea about what we mean by RESTful through the development.

Note that these days, Single-Page Applications (SPA) are quite popular. There are lots of job opportunities for developers who work on frameworks...