You're reading from ASP.NET Core 9 Web API Cookbook Over 60 hands-on recipes for building and securing enterprise web APIs with REST, GraphQL, and more

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835880340

Length 348 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

ASP.NET

Concepts

Web Services

Authors (2):

Luke Avedon

Garry Cabrera

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Practical Data Access in ASP.NET Core Web APIs

2. Chapter 2: Mastering Resource Creation and Validation FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Securing Your Web API

4. Chapter 4: Creating Custom Middleware

5. Chapter 5: Creating Comprehensive Logging Solutions

6. Chapter 6: Real-Time Communication with SignalR

7. Chapter 7: Building Robust API Tests: a Guide to Unit and Integration Testing

8. Chapter 8: GraphQL: Designing Flexible and Efficient APIs

9. Chapter 9: Deploying and Managing Your WebAPI in the Cloud

10. Chapter 10: The Craft of Caching

11. Chapter 11: Beyond the Core

12. Chapter 12: Unlock Your Exclusive Benefits

13. Index

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

For the recipes in this chapter, you’ll need the following:

.NET 9 SDK: Please make sure you are using the latest .NET 9 SDK, which is available here: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/9.0.
Aspire: Most of these recipes use the latest Aspire templates. Download them via Visual Studio, installing the Aspire.ProjectTemplates NuGet package available at https://www.nuget.org/packages/Aspire.ProjectTemplates or via the terminal by executing the following dotnet CLI command:
```
dotnet new install Aspire.ProjectTemplates
```
Go: We will be using a CLI tool created with Go. If you are following along with Windows, having the Go compiler installed in order to compile this CLI tool is the easiest way to install it. However, you can also just clone the Docker container. macOS users can install it via Homebrew. The project website lists other options: https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl.
Once you have Go installed, installing the grpcurl...