Hands-On .NET Minimal API for Web Developers

Description

Minimal APIs are architected to create HTTP APIs with minimal dependencies. They are ideal for microservices and apps that want to include only the minimum files, features, and dependencies in ASP.NET Core. This introductory-level course teaches you how to create RESTful APIs and apply them in the real world. We will start with understanding what minimal APIs are, why they are needed, and when to use them followed by understanding the differences and similarities between Minimal and MVC APIs. We will focus on implementing collection APIs, Entity Framework, and Dependency Injection. We will look at the return types like returning results in Minimal API asynchronously. We will cover important concepts like Data Transfer Objects (DTO), AutoMapper, handling exceptions, and implement individual item endpoints such as GET, PUT, and DELETE. This course will provide significant knowledge of implementing Minimal API for your next RESTful API-related project. At the end of this course, you will know how to create a Minimal Web API using .NET Core. The course teaches you to use the building concepts easily by following a step-by-step approach, making you confident to create a new Minimal API project instantly. All the resources for this course are available at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-.NET-Minimal-API-for-Web-Developers

What You Will Learn

Learn about Minimal APIs, the need, and when to use them
Differentiate between Minimal APIs and MVC APIs
Learn API collection with Entity Framework and Dependency Injection
Learn Minimal API with DTO, AutoMapper, and handle exceptions
Implement individual item endpoints such as GET, PUT, and DELETE
Learn to add AutoMapper to map data and input models

Audience

This course aims at web developers working with consuming or exposing APIs. They may be working with internal teams or external third parties. Software architects who want to apply the API concepts to scale and enhance distributed computing in their projects.

You need to know the basics of designing a RESTful API along with a PC running Windows, macOS, or Linux with Visual Studio Code (or a similar IDE that can build C# projects) to carry out hands-on activities and exercises for this course.

Approach

This course provides video content and practice activities. It follows a step-by-step approach to build an ASP.NET Core Web API project from scratch, using the newly introduced Minimal API concept to let you learn better. Descriptive, live demonstrations on the screen and detailed explanations are provided to assist you in learning.

Key Features

Learn to design RESTful APIs from scratch * Learn to create a Minimal Web API using .NET Core and get ahead in the career curve * Apply API concepts to scale and enhance distributed computing in your real-world projects

Github Repo

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-.NET-Minimal-API-for-Web-Developers

About the Author

Praveenkumar Bouna

Praveenkumar Bouna is a C# software engineer with over 15 years of C# .NET development experience in various enterprise applications, including security and surveillance systems and access control systems. He has had a successful career in the C# software development industry. Throughout his C# .NET programming career, he has encountered learners who find programming a complex subject and struggle to understand coding concepts. He provides proper guidance and direction for learning programming and mentors you in this exciting .NET programming field during the learning process.

Course Outline

1. Course Introduction

2. Getting Started with Minimal APIs

3. Implementing Collection APIs

4. A Closer Look at Return Types

5. Improving your Minimal API

6. Implementing Individual Item APIs

7. Course Conclusion