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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

You're reading from   Mastering ASP.NET Web API Build powerful HTTP services and make the most of the ASP.NET Core Web API platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463951
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Malendra Hurbuns Malendra Hurbuns
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Mithun Pattankar Mithun Pattankar
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Preface 1. Introduction to Microservices and Service-Oriented Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding HTTP and REST 3. Anatomy of ASP.NET Core Web API 4. Controllers, Actions, and Models 5. Implementing Routing 6. Middleware and Filters 7. Perform Unit and Integration Testing 8. Web API Security 9. Integration with Database 10. Error Handling, Tracing, and Logging 11. Optimization and Performance 12. Hosting and Deployment 13. Modern Web Frontends

Publishing a web API to Linux

ASP.NET Core can be hosted on Linux OS. There are number of low-cost hosting providers using Linux OS. In this section, we will deploy the PacktContacts web API on a Linux machine run as a virtual machine.

We will be using Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS Linux. There are numerous articles on how to run Ubuntu on a virtual box.

To install .NET Core for Linux, go to https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxubuntu. Installing Visual Studio Code will help you to write your code, if needed.

There are two ways to deploy the demo web API project on this Linux machine: either transfer the published file or run the publish command from the source code.

I find that running publish from the source code is much easier. With the source code, you can work on the Linux machine as well. Push the source code onto the Git repository and clone the Linux (Git needs to be installed...

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