WEB API

📘 Resources

• oskardudycz/WebApiWith.NETCore - Samples and resources of how to design WebApi with .NET Core
• REST API Tutorial
• Let's Learn .NET - Web API
• .NET 5 REST API Tutorial
• Beginner's Series to: Web APIs
• marmelab/awesome-rest
• ASP.NET CORE Web API / REST API

📝 Articles

• Microsoft REST API Guidelines
• Web API design
• ASP.NET Core 5 Route to Code: Taking advantage of Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http json extensions
• Use ASP.NET Core route-to-code for simple JSON APIs
• Nano services with ASP.NET Core or how to build a light API
• Basic JSON APIs with Route-to-code in ASP.NET Core
• Using action results and content negotiation with "route-to-code" APIs
• Model Binding - ASP.NET Core Demystified
• Beautiful and compact Web APIs with C# 9, .NET 5.0 and ASP.NET Core
• Building microservices with ASP.NET Core (without MVC)
• Finally the ASP.NET 5 Web API Blog Series!
• ASP.NET Core in .NET 5 – pass parameters to actions
• Model Binding in ASP.NET Core
• Custom Model Binding in ASP.NET Core
• Asp.Net Core Model Binding: Controlling The Binding Source
• Use ASP.NET Core route-to-code for simple JSON APIs
• Using action results and content negotiation with route-to-code APIs
• Creating Discoverable HTTP APIs with ASP.NET Core 5 Web API
• Open source HTTP API packages and tools - Microsoft
• MVC Controllers are Dinosaurs Embrace API Endpoints
• Moving from Controllers and Actions to Endpoints with MediatR - Steve Smith
• MVC Controllers are Dinosaurs - Embrace API Endpoints - Steve Smith
• Feature Slices for ASP.NET Core MVC - Steve Smith
• API Feature Folders
• What is the difference between a DTO and a POCO (or POJO)
• Give better names to your DTOs
• Immutability in DTOs?
• Immutability in C#
• Trying the REST Client extension for VSCode
• ASPNET Core Razor Pages – Worth Checking Out?
• How To Build A Basic HTTP API With ASP.NET Core
• Richardson Maturity Model
• RESTful API Design: 13 Best Practices to Make Your Users Happy
• Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
• The Web API Checklist -- 43 Things To Think About When Designing, Testing, and Releasing your API
• Design Topics
• Design Guidelines
• 14 to 2 seconds: how I improved the performance of an endpoint by 82% - part 1
• 14 to 2 seconds: how I improved the performance of an endpoint by 82% - part 2
• How to Ping an endpoint with C#
• Generic and dynamically generated controllers in ASP.NET Core MVC
• Using HTTP Methods (GET, POST, PUT, etc.) in Web API
• Routing in ASP.NET Web API
• Routing and Action Selection in ASP.NET Web API
• Attribute Routing in ASP.NET Web API 2
• Create a REST API with Attribute Routing in ASP.NET Web API 2
• The ASP.NET Web API 2 HTTP Message Lifecycle in 43 Easy Steps
• HTTP Status Codes in ASP.NET Web API - A Guided Tour
• Preventing fat/bloated/god controllers by following a simple endpoint pattern
• Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: Asynchronous Code
• Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: Introduction
• Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: Profiling and Monitoring
• Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: Server Caching
• Enabling [ApiController] globally in ASP.NET Core 2.2
• Elegant way of producing HTTP responses in ASP.NET Core outside of MVC controllers
• Fetch API, Streams API, NDJSON, and ASP.NET Core MVC
• Accepting Raw Request Body Content in ASP.NET Core API Controllers
• Passing correlation id across requests
• ASP.NET CORE CORRELATION IDS
• Asynchronous Programming with Async and Await in ASP.NET Core
• Preventing Duplicate Web Requests To ASP.NET Core
• Using Refit in ASP.NET Core to remove boilerplate code when consuming REST endpoints
• Refit Basics
• Idempotency for Fault-Tolerant Web APIs
• ASP.NET Core Endpoints. Add endpoint-enabled middleware by using IEndpointRouteBuilder extension method
• Open API support for ASP.NET Core Minimal API
• ASP.NET Core 5 Model Binding to C# 9 Record Types
• Beautiful and compact Web APIs revisited – with C# 10 and .NET 6 Preview 7
• New .NET 6 APIs driven by the developer community
• ASP.NET Core 6: Streaming JSON responses with IAsyncEnumerable, example with Angular

📹 Videos

• ASP.NET Core Series Route to Code
• NET Core 3.1 MVC REST API - Full Course
• Updating ASP.NET Core ApiEndpoints package and Fixing Dependent Projects
• ASP.NET Community Standup Flexible HTTP APIs
• Let's Learn .NET - Web API
• ASP.NET Community Standup - Building HTTP APIs
• Integrating PowerApps with .NET Web APIs
• BEYOND Status Codes! Better REST HTTP API Error Responses
• Build an API Gateway with Envoy and use with .NET Core APIs
• Hiding ASP.NET API Endpoints
• MVC REST API Tutorial in 5 Hours | ASP.NET CORE Web API | Tutorial | .NET 5
• Why Asynchronous Web API Endpoints | RESTful | async await
• ASP.NET CORE Web API / REST API - Frank Liu, Yuotube Playlist
• Best Practices for Building Async APIs with ASP.NET Core
• Building an Async API with ASP.NET Core
• ASP.NET Core Series: Route To Code
• ASP.NET Core Series: Endpoint Routing
• .NET 5 REST API Tutorial - Build From Scratch With C#
• .NET 5 REST API Tutorial
• Creating an API SDK with Refit | ASP.NET Core 5 REST API Tutorial 23
• How to build RESTful APIs the right way
• Extending .NET Minimal APIs with Swagger, Authentication & Validation
• In defence of .NET Minimal APIs | Refactoring
• Clean up your .NET Controllers with ApiEndpoints
• A new way to build CLEAN and FAST APIs in .NET
• GUIDs and UUIDs are cool, but this is cooler
• Minimal APIs just got all I wanted in .NET 7
• Building a Serverless REST API in .NET with AWS Lambda

📦 Libraries

• featherhttp/framework - A lightweight low ceremony API for web services.
• ardalis/ApiEndpoints - A project for supporting API Endpoints in ASP.NET Core web applications.
• CarterCommunity/Carter - Carter is framework that is a thin layer of extension methods and functionality over ASP.NET Core allowing code to be more explicit and most importantly more enjoyable.
• reactiveui/refit - The automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET. Heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, Refit turns your REST API into a live interface.
• canton7/RestEase - Easy-to-use typesafe REST API client library for .NET Standard 1.1 and .NET Framework 4.5 and higher, which is simple and customisable. Inspired by Refit
• StefH/RestEase-Client-Generator - A Visual Studio Extension to generate a RestEase compatible client based on a Swagger / OpenAPI specification files
• HttpRepl - The HTTP Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) is a lightweight, cross-platform command-line tool that's supported everywhere .NET Core is supported and is used for making HTTP requests to test ASP.NET Core web APIs and view their results.
• rest-client - REST Client allows you to send HTTP request and view the response in Visual Studio Code directly.
• Swashbuckle.AspNetCore - Swagger tools for documenting API's built on ASP.NET Core
• OpenAPI.NET - The OpenAPI.NET SDK contains a useful object model for OpenAPI documents in .NET along with common serializers to extract raw OpenAPI JSON and YAML documents from the model.
• NSwag - The Swagger/OpenAPI toolchain for .NET, ASP.NET Core and TypeScript.
• Crunch.vscode-openapi - This Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension adds rich support for the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) (formerly known as Swagger Specification) in JSON or YAML format
• httpstat.us - Easily generate different HTTP responses for testing
• beetlex-io/FastHttpApi
• davidfowl/uController - Code generated Web API framework for .NET Core
• khellang/Middleware/problemdetails - Various ASP.NET Core middleware
• json-api-dotnet/JsonApiDotNetCore - JSON:API Framework for ASP.NET Core
• dasiths/SimpleEndpoints - A simple, convention-based, endpoint per action pattern implementation for AspNetCore 3.0+ with full support for Swagge
• GeorgDangl/LightQuery - Lightweight solution for sorting and paging Asp.Net Core API results
• hassanhabib/InvisibleApi - ASP.NET Library that allows developers to add an extra layer of security on top of their existing endpoints
• Kahbazi/MediatR.AspNetCore.Endpoints
• Biarity/Sieve - Sieve is a simple, clean, and extensible framework for .NET Core that adds sorting, filtering, and pagination functionality out of the box.

🔖 Samples

• filipw/net60-webapi-samples
• filipw/net50-webapi-samples
• filipw/apress-recipes-webapi - Samples from ASP.NET Web API 2: Recipes book.
• featherhttp/tutorial - Quick tutorials on how you you can build easy web applications with FeatherHttp. Learn how to build lightweight server-side web applications
• ardalis/MediatRAspNetCore - Sample showing MediatR with ASP.NET Core
• eShopOnWeb/PublicApi

Templates

• ApiBoilerPlate - A simple yet organized project template for building ASP.NET Core APIs in .NET Core 3.1
• CleanArchitecture - Clean Architecture Template for Blazor WebAssembly Built with MudBlazor Components.
• pdevito3/craftsman - Craftsman is the workhorse behind the Wrapt framework and provides a suite of CLI commands for quickly scaffolding out new files and projects for your .NET Web APIs with simple CLI commands and configuration files.

📚 Books

• REST API Design Rulebook
• The Design of Web APIs
• ASP.NET Web API 2: Building a REST Service from Start to Finish 2nd ed. Edition
• ASP.NET Web API 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

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