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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

By : Mithun Pattankar
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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

By: Mithun Pattankar

Overview of this book

Microsoft has unified their main web development platforms. This unification will help develop web applications using various pieces of the ASP.NET platform that can be deployed on both Windows and LINUX. With ASP.NET Core (Web API), it will become easier than ever to build secure HTTP services that can be used from any client. Mastering ASP.NET Web API starts with the building blocks of the ASP.NET Core, then gradually moves on to implementing various HTTP routing strategies in the Web API. We then focus on the key components of building applications that employ the Web API, such as Kestrel, Middleware, Filters, Logging, Security, and Entity Framework.Readers will be introduced to take the TDD approach to write test cases along with the new Visual Studio 2017 live unit testing feature. They will also be introduced to integrate with the database using ORMs. Finally, we explore how the Web API can be consumed in a browser as well as by mobile applications by utilizing Angular 4, Ionic and ReactJS. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply best practices to develop complex Web API, consume them in frontend applications and deploy these applications to a modern hosting infrastructure.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we covered Test-driven development using Uncle Bob's three laws along with saying Red-Green-Refactor to help us along the way.

We created some assertions using more of behavior-driven assertions. We then applied all of this to testing our API as if we were running integration tests. All of this is in the context if you have set up an automatic deployment, and you need some certainty that your API is fully functional.

Then we introduced the xUnit test for when we need to create some of our assemblies as pure .NET Core assemblies. We validated the theory that what we created with our MS test could be created with xUnit as well.

In the next chapter we will focus on implementing different security mechanisms for web API.