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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

By : Gaurav Aroraa, Tadit Dash
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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

By: Gaurav Aroraa, Tadit Dash

Overview of this book

REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services. In today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of ASP.NET Core makes it a breeze for developers to work with for building robust web APIs. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages the ASP.NET Core framework to implement these services. This book begins by introducing you to the basics of the philosophy behind REST. You'll go through the steps of designing and implementing an enterprise-grade RESTful web service. This book takes a practical approach, that you can apply to your own circumstances. This book brings forth the power of the latest .NET Core release, working with MVC. Later, you will learn about the use of the framework to explore approaches to tackle resilience, security, and scalability concerns. You will explore the steps to improve the performance of your applications. You'll also learn techniques to deal with security in web APIs and discover how to implement unit and integration test strategies. By the end of the book, you will have a complete understanding of Building a client for RESTful web services, along with some scaling techniques.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

We started with some basic knowledge of SOAP and then we moved towards REST gradually.

This chapter shed some light on the fundamental REST building blocks and how they actually work. We explored the different status codes returned by widely used HTTP verbs.

To explore the request and response cycles of Web API, you can use Postman, where you not only have control over what is being sent and received, but also the ability to get code for different languages in order to consume the API.

ASP.NET Core attributes can be tied to controller action methods to make them more expressive and manageable in terms of routing and arguments.

Single-page applications can be easily designed using client-side technologies and consuming ASP.NET Core Web APIs so that pages can be updated as soon as responses are received to have a smooth user experience.

Web APIs can be plugged into the...