Mastering Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core: Build, test, and prototype web APIs quickly using .NET and C#

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The Minimal APIs feature, introduced in .NET 6, is the answer to code complexity and rising dependencies in creating even the simplest of APIs. Minimal APIs facilitate API development using compact code syntax and help you develop web APIs quickly. This practical guide explores Minimal APIs end-to-end and helps you take advantage of its features and benefits for your ASP.NET Core projects. The chapters in this book will help you speed up your development process by writing less code and maintaining fewer files using Minimal APIs. You’ll also learn how to enable Swagger for API documentation along with CORS and handle application errors. The book even promotes ideas to structure your code in a better way using the dependency injection library in .NET. Finally, you'll learn about performance and benchmarking improvements for your apps. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to fully leverage new features in .NET 6 for API development and explore how Minimal APIs are an evolution over classical web API development in ASP.NET Core.

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Adopt new features in .NET 6 for building lightweight APIs

Understand how to optimize API development with Minimal APIs in .NET 6

Discover best practices for accessing and using data in Minimal APIs

Understand how to validate incoming data to an API and return error messages

Get familiar with dependency injection and logging for identifying errors

Leverage the translation system in Minimal APIs to provide messages and errors in regional languages

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Sergio Guidi T. Pessoa Dec 04, 2022

Disclaimer: I received this book from Packt Publishing for an honest review.This book was written for people who know the basics of ASP.NET and want to improve their skills using the latest technology available for ASP.NET Core using Minimal APIs. The web keeps changing and improving at a fast pace and things that we knew years ago are becoming things of the past. But why not keep doing the things the way we are accustomed to doing and are sure that they will work just fine on the next project? Unfortunately, in the IT world as in many other professions, our learning is empirical and a lot of times based on trial and error, improving, trying again, fixing what is wrong until we find ourselves in a position where we can proudly say: “That is it, this works and does not need any more improvement!”, just to someone comes along and show us a better and faster way of doing things with less code. It is a well-known fact that code that needs a lot of changes will need more maintainability, increasing its cost exponentially.The most important aspect of a new trend is to do things better, faster, cheaper, and less prone to errors and we developers love to give a try to any new cool thing that is in town, to see for ourselves how good it is and how we can use it on our next project. This book starts with a quick introduction to Minimal APIs explaining their advantages and then jumps right in into working with it. There are many topics that you might have heard, but never had the chance to explore or use them as CORS, Swagger, Serilog, Dapper, and many others. There is no fluffy in this book as it goes straight to the point and doesn’t waste time with unnecessary explanations. Other important topics such as Validation and Mapping are also covered. The book does not stop there, it goes deeper into more advanced topics including Authentication and Authorization which are a must if you are creating anything on the internet to keep it secure.The book not only shows how things are done, but also covers the best practices such as Dependency Injection in a minimal API, to make your code more maintainable and less tightly coupled. Another important aspect of a successful web project is the performance of your site, and the book has a chapter on benchmarking and performance of minimal APIs to be sure that everything is running fast and smoothly. To summarize, this is a very well written book with an enjoyable reading through your journey to become a proficient ASP.NET Core developer using Minimal APIs.

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