Summary

Developing minimal APIs with globalization and localization support in mind is fundamental in an interconnected world. ASP.NET Core includes all the features needed to create services that can react to the culture of the user and provide translations based on the request language: the usage of localization middleware, resource files, and custom validation messages allows the creation of services that can support virtually every culture. We have also talked about the globalization-related problems that could arise when working with different time zones and shown how to solve it using the centralized UTC date time format so that our APIs can seamlessly work irrespective of the geographic location and time zone of clients.

In Chapter 10, Evaluating and Benchmarking the Performance of Minimal APIs, we will talk about why minimal APIs were created and analyze the performance benefits of using minimal APIs over the classic controller-based approach.