You're reading from Architecting ASP.NET Core Applications An atypical design patterns guide for .NET 8, C# 12, and beyond

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805123385

Length 806 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

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.NET

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Design Patterns

Author (1):

Carl-Hugo Marcotte

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Principles and Methodologies FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction

3. Automated Testing

4. Architectural Principles

5. REST APIs

6. Section 2: Designing with ASP.NET Core

7. Minimal APIs

8. Model-View-Controller

9. Strategy, Abstract Factory, and Singleton Design Patterns

10. Dependency Injection

11. Application Configuration and the Options Pattern

12. Logging Patterns

13. Section 3: Component Patterns

14. Structural Patterns

15. Behavioral Patterns

16. Operation Result Pattern

17. Section 4: Application Patterns

Anti-pattern – Big Ball of Mud

18. Layering and Clean Architecture

19. Object Mappers

20. Mediator and CQS Patterns

21. Getting Started with Vertical Slice Architecture

22. Request-EndPoint-Response (REPR)

23. Introduction to Microservices Architecture

24. Modular Monolith

25. Other Books You May Enjoy

26. Index

Summary

We delved into the Request-EndPoint-Response (REPR) design pattern and learned that REPR follows the most foundational pattern of the web. The client sends a request to an endpoint, which processes it and returns a response. The pattern focuses on designing the backend code around the endpoint, making it faster to develop, easier to find your way around the project, and more focused on features than MVC and layers.

We also took a CQS approach to the requests, making them queries or commands, and depicting all that can happen in a program: read or write states.

We explored ways to organize code around such a pattern, from implementing trivial to more complex features. We built a technology stack to create an e-commerce web application that leverages the REPR pattern and a feature-oriented design. We learned how to leverage middleware to handle exceptions globally and how the ExceptionMapper library provides us with this capability. We also used gray-box testing to cover...