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Mastering Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core

By : Andrea Tosato, Marco Minerva, Emanuele Bartolesi
Book Image

Mastering Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core

By: Andrea Tosato, Marco Minerva, Emanuele Bartolesi

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction
5
Part 2: What’s New in .NET 6?
10
Part 3: Advanced Development and Microservices Concepts

Adding UTC support to a globalized minimal API

So far, we have added globalization and localization support to our minimal API because we want it to be used by the widest audience possible, irrespective of culture. But, if we think about being accessible to a worldwide audience, we should consider several aspects related to globalization. Globalization does not only pertain to language support; there are important factors we need to consider, for example, geographic locations, as well as time zones.

So, for example, we can have our minimal API running in Italy, which follows Central European Time (CET) (GMT+1), while our clients can use browsers that execute a single-page application, rather than mobile apps, all over the world. We could also have a database server that contains our data, and this could be in another time zone. Moreover, at a certain point, it may be necessary to provide better support for worldwide users, so we’ll have to move our service to another location...