You're reading from Web API Development with ASP.NET Core 8

Product type Book

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804610954

Pages 804 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Web Services

Author (1):

Xiaodi Yan

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Web APIs

2. Chapter 2: Getting Started with ASP.NET Core Web APIs

3. Chapter 3: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 1)

4. Chapter 4: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 2)

5. Chapter 5: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 1: Entity Framework Core Fundamentals)

6. Chapter 6: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Entity Relationships)

7. Chapter 7: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 3: Tips)

8. Chapter 8: Security and Identity in ASP.NET Core

9. Chapter 9: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 1 – Unit Testing)

10. Chapter 10: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Integration Testing)

11. Chapter 11: Getting Started with gRPC

12. Chapter 12: Getting Started with GraphQL

13. Chapter 13: Getting Started with SignalR

14. Chapter 14: CI/CD for ASP.NET Core Using Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

15. Chapter 15: ASP.NET Core Web API Common Practices

16. Chapter 16: Error Handling, Monitoring, and Observability

17. Chapter 17: Cloud-Native Patterns

18. Index

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What is a web API?

API stands for application programming interface. A web API, as the name suggests, is a set of programming interfaces for the web. For example, when you book a flight on a website, the browser makes a request to the airline’s server through a web API to access the airline’s database. The airline’s server then returns the information about the flight to the browser, allowing you to book your flight in it.

APIs have been delivered by organizations for decades. With the appearance of the World Wide Web, people needed a way to communicate between the server and the client.

We can build web APIs using different technologies, such as Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, .NET, and so on. Also, they have various styles. You might have heard of terms such as SOAP, Web Service, and REST. They are all based on the HTTP protocol but communicate in different ways.

In this book, we consider web APIs as a wider concept than REST. In the digital world, the way...