ASP.NET Core provides an elegant way of building web applications and APIs that run on Windows, Linux, and macOS, owing to the .NET Core platform's tool and SDK that simplify developing cutting-edge applications and support side-by-side with application versioning. With ASP.NET Core, your applications have a smaller surface area which improves performance as you only have to include the NuGet packages required to run your applications. ASP.NET Core can also be integrated with client-side libraries and frameworks, allowing you to develop web applications using the CSS and JS libraries you are already familiar with.
ASP.NET Core runs with Kestrel, a web server included in the ASP.NET Core project templates. Kestrel is an in-process cross-platform HTTP server implementation based on libuv, a cross-platform asynchronous I/O library that...