MVC 5 or MVC 6 for beginner MVC

Question

I am a .net developer with 10 years of experience, but have never had the opportunity to work with MVC or EF. As I look for other possibilities, I started looking in MVC 5 and other new technologies / infrastructures. I got my basics, however, with the recent release of MVC 6, now I'm embarrassed to find out what. It seems that MVC 6 is fundamentally different from System.web, httpcontext, global.asax and other places that change in MVC 6. I plan to get a subscription to a book or Pluralsight and study MVC in more detail with the help of some laboratories and hands in practice. You guys think I should do this with MVC 5, and when MVC 6 is released, it will be on top or start with MVC 6 directly to avoid confusion. Your help is appreciated.

Any suggestion for a website / books?

Edit- It seems MVC 5 is the way to go. Any other technology that comes with it?

Answer 1

If you are just starting out with ASP.NET MVC, MVC 5.0 will do what most of what you learn can be ported to version 6 when it is released.

I would also recommend exploring front-end MVW frameworks such as AngularJS with ASP.NET WebAPI.

Most of the knowledge on learning MVC patterns can be shared with AngularJS, and you can use WebAPI as source code to create a robust API for your applications (which you can reuse later to port your applications to other platforms such as iOS or Android)

The asp.net site is a great place to start:

http://www.asp.net/web-api

http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-5/introduction/getting-started