Summary

This chapter explored the MVC design pattern, a well-established framework in the ASP.NET ecosystem that offers more advanced features than its newer minimal APIs counterpart. Minimal APIs don’t compete against MVC; we can use them together.

The MVC pattern emphasizes the separation of concerns, making it a proven pattern for creating maintainable, scalable, and robust web applications. We broke down the MVC pattern into its three core components: models, views, and controllers. Models represent data and business logic, views are user-facing components (serialized data structures), and controllers act as intermediaries, mediating the interaction between models and views.

We also discussed using DTOs to package data in the format we need, providing many benefits, including flexibility, efficiency, encapsulation, and improved performance. DTOs are a crucial part of the API contract.

Now that we have explored principles and methodologies, the following two...