Hands-on .NET Minimal API for Web Developers

A guide to creating a Minimal Web API using ASP.NET Core through a step-by-step approach.

Created by: Praveenkumar Bouna
Cloud Instructor

What Will I Learn?

• Get started with Minimal APIs by understanding what are minimal APIs, it's need, when to use them, etc.
• Know the difference and similarity between Minimal APIs and MVC APIs.
• Implement collection API using EntityFramework and Dependency Injection.
• Improve your Minimal API through Data Transfer Objects (DTO), AutoMapper, and handling exceptions.
• Implement individual item endpoints such as GET, PUT, and DELETE.
• Download the companion resources and apply the learnings through practice activities.

Requirements

• Basics of designing a RESTful API.
• A PC running Windows, macOS, or Linux with Visual Studio Code (or similar IDE that can build C# projects) to carry out hands-on activities and exercises.

Target audience

• Developers who work with APIs by either consuming or exposing APIs. You may be working with internal teams or external 3rd party teams.
• Software Architects who want to apply the API concepts to scale and enhance distributed computing in your projects.