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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

Integration with the Data Access Layer

In this chapter, we will learn about some basic ways to add a data access layer to the minimal APIs in .NET 6.0. We will see how we can use some topics covered previously in the book to access data with Entity Framework (EF) and then with Dapper. These are two ways to access a database.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Using Entity Framework
  • Using Dapper

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to use EF from scratch in a minimal API project, and use Dapper for the same goal. You will also be able to tell when one approach is better than the other in a project.