Use ASP.NET Core 2 to create durable and cross-platform web APIs through a series of applied, practical scenarios. Examples in this book help you build APIs that are fast and scalable. You’ll progress from the basics of the framework through to solving the complex problems encountered in implementing secure RESTful services. The book is packed full of examples showing how Microsoft’s ground-up rewrite of ASP.NET Core 2 enables native cross-platform applications that are fast and modular, allowing your cloud-ready server applications to scale as your business grows. Major topics covered in the book include the fundamentals and core concepts of ASP.NET Core 2. You'll learn about building RESTful APIs with the MVC pattern using proven best practices and following the six principles of REST. Examples in the book help in learning to develop world-class web APIs and applications that can run on any platform, including Windows, Linux, and MacOS. You can even deploy to Microsoft Azure and automate your delivery by implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines. What You Will Learn:
Incorporate automated API tooling such as Swagger from the OpenAPI specification
Standardize query and response formats using Facebook’s GraphQL query language
Implement security by applying authentication and authorization using ASP.NET Identity
Ensure the safe storage of sensitive data using the data protection stack
Create unit and integration tests to guarantee code quality
Shows how to build cross-platform applications using the completely rewritten, ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework. Covers unit- and integration-testing for assuring code quality, along with remote debugging.Provides examples of application deployment to Microsoft’s Azure cloud environment. Shows how to build cross-platform web APIs using the completely rewritten ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework along with RESTful techniques, Swagger, GraphQL, HATEOAS, versioning, and more Covers unit- and integration-testing for assuring code quality, along with debugging .NET Core compiled code Provides examples of application deployment to Microsoft’s Azure cloud environment, Docker, and Ubuntu