ABP Documentation
ABP offers an opinionated architecture to build enterprise software solutions with best practices on top of the .NET and the ASP.NET Core platforms. It provides the fundamental infrastructure, production-ready startup templates, pre-built application modules, UI themes, tooling, guides and documentation to implement that architecture properly and automate the details and repetitive works as much as possible.
Why ABP Platform?
The following pages outline why you should use the ABP Platform and how it is used:
Get Started
The Getting Started guide can be used to create and run ABP based solutions with different options and details.
After getting started, you can read the following documents:
- Todo Application Tutorial to create your first ABP application.
- Book Store Application Tutorial to build a full-featured and real-life web application with ABP.
UI Framework Options
ABP can work with any UI framework, while the following frameworks are supported and well-integrated out of the box:
Database Provider Options
ABP can work with any database provider, while the following providers are supported and well-integrated out of the box:
The ABP Platform
ABP bridges the gap between ASP.NET Core and real-world business application requirements, allowing you to focus on your business code.
The following diagram contains the core components of the ABP Platform and shows how ABP sits between ASP.NET Core and Your Application:
Exploring the Documentation
ABP has a comprehensive documentation that not only explains ABP, but also includes guides and samples to help you on creating a maintainable solution by introducing and discussing common software development principle and best practices.
The next sections highlight important ABP components and provides links to related documents.
The Framework
Architecture
ABP offers a complete, modular and layered software architecture based on Domain Driven Design principles and patterns. It also provides the necessary infrastructure to implement this architecture.
- See the Modularity document to understand the module system.
- Implementing Domain Driven Design book is an ultimate guide for who want to understand and implement the DDD with ABP.
- Microservice Architecture document explains how ABP helps to create a microservice solution.
- Multi-Tenancy document introduces multi-tenancy and explores the ABP multi-tenancy infrastructure.
Infrastructure
There are a lot of features provided by ABP to achieve real world scenarios easier, like Event Bus, Background Job System, Audit Logging, BLOB Storing, Data Seeding, Data Filtering.
Cross Cutting Concerns
ABP also simplifies (and even automates wherever possible) cross cutting concerns and common non-functional requirements like Exception Handling, Validation, Authorization, Localization, Caching, Dependency Injection, Setting Management, etc.
Tooling
ABP Platform provides tooling to help you in your daily development.
ABP Studio
ABP Studio is a cross-platform desktop application for ABP and .NET developers. It aims to provide a comfortable development environment for you by automating things, providing insights about your solution, making develop, run, browse, monitor, trace and deploy your solutions much easier.
ABP Suite
ABP Suite is a tool to assist your application development. Its main functionality is to automatically generate CRUD-style pages once you define your entities and their relations.
ABP CLI
ABP CLI is a command-line tool to create new solutions and automate the things with your ABP based solutions.
Startup Templates
The Startup templates are pre-built Visual Studio solution templates. You can create your own solution based on these templates to immediately start your development.
Application Modules
Application Modules provides pre-built application modules those implement common business requirements. See the Application Modules document for all pre-built modules.
UI Themes
ABP provides a UI theming system where you can use pre-built themes for your solution or build your own UI themes.
Books
Mastering ABP Framework
Mastering ABP Framework is an ultimate guide to get started and expertise with the ABP Framework. It is authored by Halil İbrahim Kalkan, the creator and the lead developer of the ABP Framework.
Click here to see the details and order the book.
Free E-Book: Implementing Domain Driven Design
A practical guide for implementing Domain Driven Design (DDD). While the implementation details are based on the ABP infrastructure, the basic concepts, principles and models can be applied to any solution, even if it is not a .NET solution.
Click here to get your free copy.
Samples
See the sample projects built with ABP.
ABP Community
The ABP Community website is a central place to publish articles and share knowledge about ABP.
Blog
Follow the ABP Blog to learn the latest happenings in the ABP Platform.
The Source Code
ABP's source code is hosted on GitHub. See the source code.
Want to Contribute?
ABP is a community-driven open source project. See the contribution guide if you want to be a part of this project.
