A Minimal Api With .Net 6 Using C#

A walkthrough to create and run a minimal API with .NET 6 using C#

What you'll learn

Create a minimal API with .NET 6 and C#

Add mappings for HTTP request methods

Add and use dependency injection in the minimal API

Make a minimal API async

Requirements

Basic knowledge of C# and .NET

The idea behind ASYNC

Know what dependency injection is and what it does

Visual Studio 2022 (community)

Know the theory behind an API and what it does

Description

Writing APIs isn't really new. We are doing it for some time now. But with the new .NET and other updates, we have the .NET 6 minimal API. Creating an API with less code! In this course, I will walk you through the steps you need to take to create a minimal API using C# and .NET 6.In this course, I am going to teach you the basics of the minimal API with C# and .NET 6. First I'll show you the "old" way in .NET 5, so you have a better understanding of what has changed. It isn’t much, but they are major changes. Then I am going to create the minimal API and expand it with several mappings for the endpointsDependency injection is a well-used design pattern, so I will add that to the course as well. I’ll show you how to register and use dependency injection in a single file. The injection of the interfaces is a bit different than we are used to.The last topic is making the API async, which is a good idea if you want to handle requests more quickly and execute tasks simultaneously.It is advisable to have some knowledge of C# and the basic idea of APIs. Furthermore, knowledge of dependency injection and async is a must.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Requirements

Lecture 3 The .NET 5 API

Section 2: Creating the .NET 6 API

Lecture 4 Creating the .NET 6 minimal API

Lecture 5 Files and folders

Section 3: Mappings

Lecture 6 Mappings - Preparations

Lecture 7 Mappings - GET

Lecture 8 Mappings - POST

Lecture 9 Mappings - PUT

Lecture 10 Mappings - DELETE

Section 4: Minimal API and dependency injections

Lecture 11 Using dependency injection

Section 5: Making the API async

Lecture 12 Making the API async

Section 6: Conclusion

Lecture 13 Conclusion

Writing APIs isn’t really new. We are doing it for some time now. But with the .NET 6 and other updates, we have the .NET 6 minimal API. Creating and API with less code!