Mastering Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core: Build, test, and prototype web APIs quickly using .NET and C#

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Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction to Minimal APIs
	Technical requirements
	A brief history of the Microsoft Web API
	Creating a new minimal API project
		Creating the project with Visual Studio 2022
		Creating the project with Visual Studio Code
	Looking at the structure of the project
	Summary
Chapter 2: Exploring Minimal APIs and Their Advantages
	Technical requirements
	Routing
		Route handlers
		Route parameters
		Route constraints
	Parameter binding
		Special bindings
		Custom binding
	Exploring responses
	Controlling serialization
	Architecting a minimal API project
		Going forward
	Summary
Chapter 3: Working with Minimal APIs
	Technical requirements
	Exploring Swagger
		Swagger in the Visual Studio scaffold
		OpenAPI Generator
		Swagger in minimal APIs
	Enabling CORS
		CORS flow from an HTTP request
		Setting CORS with a policy
		Setting CORS with extensions
		Setting CORS with an annotation
	Working with global API settings
		Configuration in .NET 6
		Options pattern
		Configuration sources
	Error handling
		Traditional approach
		Problem Details and the IETF standard
	Summary
Part 2: What’s New in .NET 6?
Chapter 4: Dependency Injection in a Minimal API Project
	Technical requirements
	What is dependency injection?
		Understanding dependency injection lifetimes
	Implementing dependency injection in a minimal API project
	Summary
Chapter 5: Using Logging to Identify Errors
	Technical requirements
	Exploring logging in .NET
		Configuring logging
		Customizing log message
		Infrastructure logging
		Source generators
	Leveraging the logging framework
		Console log
		Creating a custom provider
		Application Insights
	Storing a structured log with Serilog
	Summary
Chapter 6: Exploring Validation and Mapping
	Technical requirements
	Handling validation
		Performing validation with data annotations
		Integrating FluentValidation
		Adding validation information to Swagger
	Mapping data to and from APIs
		Performing manual mapping
		Mapping with AutoMapper
	Summary
Chapter 7: Integration with the Data Access Layer
	Technical requirements
	Using Entity Framework
		Setting up the project
		Adding EF Core to the project
		Adding endpoints to the project
	Using Dapper
		Setting up the project
		Creating a repository pattern
		Using Dapper to query the database
		Adding a new entity in the database with Dapper
		Implementing the repository in the endpoints
	Summary
Part 3: Advanced Development and Microservices Concepts
Chapter 8: Adding Authentication and Authorization
	Technical requirements
	Introducing authentication and authorization
	Protecting a minimal API
		Generating a JWT bearer
		Validating a JWT bearer
		Adding JWT support to Swagger
		Testing authentication
	Handling authorization – roles and policies
		Handling role-based authorization
		Applying policy-based authorization
		Using default and fallback policies
	Summary
Chapter 9: Leveraging Globalization and Localization
	Technical requirements
	Introducing globalization and localization
	Localizing a minimal API application
		Adding globalization support to Swagger
	Using resource files
		Creating and working with resource files
		Formatting localized messages using resource files
	Integrating localization in validation frameworks
		Localizing validation messages with MiniValidation
		Localizing validation messages with FluentValidation
	Adding UTC support to a globalized minimal API
	Summary
Chapter 10: Evaluating and Benchmarking the Performance of Minimal APIs
	Technical requirements
	Improvements with minimal APIs
	Exploring performance with load tests
		Use cases
		Writing k6 tests
		Running a k6 performance test
	Benchmarking minimal APIs with BenchmarkDotNet
		Running BenchmarkDotNet
	Summary
Index
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