Название: Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core (Final)
Автор: Valerio De Sanctis
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2023
Страниц: 678
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true), mobi
Размер: 25.9 MB

Build fully-featured APIs with ASP.NET Core! This all-practical guide is written like a real development project, taking you hands-on with modern APIs utilizing REST and GraphQL standards.

In Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core you will learn how to
Set up your environment with VS 2022, Node, Git, and more
Create a ASP.NET Core project from scratch
Integrate with SQL Server
Use Entity Framework Core to set up a data model
Create back-end controllers
Design an API to serve data
Write API documentation using Swagger and Swashbuckle
Consume an API using typical web client-side frameworks
Handle requests and routes using controllers and Minimal API
Release and deploy your Web API in production on cloud-based hosting services such as MS Azure

Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core is a practical beginner’s guide to creating your first web APIs using ASP.NET Core. In it, you’ll develop an API that feeds web-based services, including websites and mobile apps, for a board games application. The book is cleverly structured to mirror a real-world development project, with each chapter introducing a new feature request. You’ll build your API with an ecosystem of ASP.NET Core tools that help simplify everything from setting up your data model to generating documentation.

About the Technology
Web APIs are the front door to an application, providing controlled access to its data and features. ASP.NET Core, Microsoft’s web framework, simplifies and accelerates API creation with powerful, developer-friendly features, including an innovative “no compile” coding experience. It is reliable, fast, free, open-source, and backed by Microsoft’s legendary support.

I’ve chosen to use ASP.NET Core for our web API projects because the new Microsoft Framework enforces several modern architectural principles and best practices that allow us to build lightweight, highly modular apps with a high level of testability and maintainability of the source code. Such an approach naturally guides developers to build (or adopt) applications composed of discrete and reusable components that perform specific tasks and communicate through a series of interfaces made available by the framework. These components are called services and middleware, and they’re registered and configured in the web application’s Program.cs file, which is the app’s entry point.

Note If you’re coming from an older ASP.NET Core version, such as 3.1 or 5.0, you may wonder what happened to the Startup class (and its corresponding Startup.cs file), which used to contain the services and middleware configuration settings. This class was removed from the minimal hosting model introduced with .NET 6, which merged the Program and Startup classes into a single Program.cs file.

About the Book
Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core teaches you how to write safe, maintainable, and performant REST APIs. It’s full of best practices for modern and classic API styles, including REST and GraphQL. You’ll love the groundbreaking Minimal API model that helps you build pro-quality APIs with just a few lines of code. Each chapter contains realistic user stories, backlog items, and development tasks.

What's Inside
Create an ASP.NET Core project from scratch
Set up a data model with Entity Framework Core
Create backend controllers
Design an API to serve data

About the Reader
For developers with some experience using the .NET Framework.

About the Author
Valerio De Sanctis has more than 20 years of experience in web development and project management using ASP.NET, PHP, and Java.

Quotes
Great blend of foundational and advanced concepts and techniques.
- Darren Gillis, BlackLabel Digital

REST, authentication/authorization, validation, and even documentation are all covered in one place. This is the book you’re looking for!
- Paul Brown, VacoBuilt

Fantastic! Provides realistic examples and gets the reader comfortable quickly with API development.
- Foster Haines, J2 Interactive

I like the pragmatic way to learn by building a real ASP.NET Core API.
- Enzo Aggazio, SCAI Lab