Mastering Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core

Build, test, and prototype web APIs quickly using .NET and C#

By: Andrea Tosato, Marco Minerva, Emanuele Bartolesi

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eText | 21 October 2022 | Edition Number 1

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A developer's guide to writing better, cleaner code faster and quickly becoming productive with .NET 6 and Minimal APIs

Key Features

Discover novel solutions to simplify the development of an API through clear, detailed guidelines
Explore tips, tricks, and best practices and discover techniques to build a performant application
Deep dive into Minimal APIs and use a new development methodology and latest .NET 6 development tools

Book Description

Simplification of code is every developer's dream. Minimal APIs are a new feature in .NET 6 that aims to simplify the code. They are used for building APIs with minimal dependencies in ASP.NET Core. Minimal APIs simplify API development through the use of a more compact code syntax. Minimal APIs are a new feature in .NET 6.

Developers using Minimal APIs will be able to take advantage of this syntax on some occasions to speed up with less code and less file to maintain. You will be introduced to the main new features of .NET 6 and see the basic themes of Minimal APIs, which weren't available in NET 5 and previous versions. You'll see how to enable Swagger for API documentation along with CORS and handle application errors. You will learn to better structure your code with Microsoft's new .NET framework called Dependency Injection. Finally, you will see the performance and benchmarking improvements in .NET 6 that are introduced in Minimal APIs.

By the end of this book, you will be able to leverage Minimal APIs and understand in which way they are related to the classic development of Web APIs.

What you will learn

Understand what's new in .NET 6
Write Minimal APIs in .NET 6 to reduce the lines of code
Use dependency Injection and Logging in Minimal APIs to identify errors
Discover best practices for accessing and using data in Minimal APIs
Leverage the translation system in a Minimal APIs project to provide errors in the same language
Validate incoming data to an API and return any error or message

Who This Book Is For

This book is for .NET Developers who want to build .NET and .NET Core APIs and want to study new features of .NET 6. Basic knowledge of C#, .NET, Visual Studio, and REST APIs are assumed.