The ASP.NET back-end

The ASP.NET back-end stack is contained in the following folders:

• The Dependencies virtual folder, which basically replaces the old References folder and contains all the internal, external, and third-party references required to build and run our project. All the references to the NuGet packages that we’ll add to our project will also be put there.
• The /Controllers/ folder, which has been shipped with any MVC-based ASP.NET application since the preceding release of the MVC framework: this folder contains a single controller – WeatherForecastController.cs – which is responsible for serving the sample weather forecast data that we briefly saw in Chapter 2, Getting Ready, during our final test run.
• The root-level files – Program.cs and appsettings.json – which will determine our web application’s configuration, including the modules and middleware, compilation settings, and publishing rules; we’...