ASP.NET Core Web API Common Practices

We have introduced a lot of concepts in the previous chapters, including the basics of ASP.NET web API, the RESTful style, Entity Framework, unit testing and integration testing, CI/CD, and so on. You should be able to build a simple ASP.NET Core web API application by yourself. However, there are still many things that we need to learn.

You may have heard the phrase “there is no silver bullet” before. It means that there are often no simple, universal, or one-size-fits-all solutions to solve all problems. No matter how powerful the technologies, tools, or frameworks are, they are not omnipotent. This is true for ASP.NET Core web API development. However, there are some common practices that can help us build a better ASP.NET Core web API application.

In this chapter, we will summarize the common practices of ASP.NET Core web API development. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

• Common practices of ASP...