Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3: Design production-ready, testable, and flexible RESTful APIs for web applications and microservices
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Get up to speed with the latest features of C# 8, ASP.NET Core 3 and .NET Core 3.1 LTS to create robust and maintainable web services
Key FeaturesApply design patterns and techniques to achieve a reactive, scalable web serviceDocument your web services using the OpenAPI standard and test them using PostmanExplore mechanisms to implement a secure web service using client-side SSL and token authenticationBook Description
In recent times, web services have evolved to play a prominent role in web development. Applications are now designed to be compatible with any device and platform, and web services help us keep their logic and UI separate. Given its simplicity and effectiveness in creating web services, the RESTful approach has gained popularity, and this book will help you build RESTful web services using ASP.NET Core.
This REST book begins by introducing you to the basics of the REST philosophy, where you’ll study the different stages of designing and implementing enterprise-grade RESTful web services. You’ll also gain a thorough understanding of ASP.NET Core’s middleware approach and learn how to customize it. The book will later guide you through improving API resilience, securing your service, and applying different design patterns and techniques to achieve a scalable web service. In addition to this, you’ll learn advanced techniques for caching, monitoring, and logging, along with implementing unit and integration testing strategies. In later chapters, you will deploy your REST web services on Azure and document APIs using Swagger and external tools such as Postman.
By the end of this book, you will have learned how to design RESTful web services confidently using ASP.NET Core with a focus on code testability and maintainability.
What you will learnGain a comprehensive working knowledge of ASP.NET CoreIntegrate third-party tools and frameworks to build maintainable and efficient servicesImplement patterns using dependency injection to reduce boilerplate code and improve flexibilityUse ASP.NET Core’s out-of-the-box tools to test your applicationsUse Docker to run your ASP.NET Core web service in an isolated and self-contained environmentSecure your information using HTTPS and token-based authenticationIntegrate multiple web services using resiliency patterns and messaging techniquesWho this book is for
This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to build RESTful web services with the ASP.NET Core framework to improve the scalability and performance of their applications. Basic knowledge of C# and .NET Core will help you make the best use of the code samples included in the book.
Table of ContentsREST 101 and Getting Started with ASP.NET CoreOverview of ASP.NET CoreWorking with the Middleware PipelineDependency Injection SystemWeb Service Stack in ASP.NET CoreRouting SystemFilter PipelineBuilding the Data Access LayerImplementing the Domain LogicImplementing the RESTful HTTP LayerAdvanced Concepts of Building an APIThe Containerization of ServicesService Ecosystem PatternsImplementing Worker Services Using .NET CoreSecuring Your ServiceCaching Web Service ResponsesLogging and Health CheckingDeploying Services on AzureDocumenting Your API Using SwaggerTesting Services Using Postman
ASIN : B07MXLQR34
Publisher : Packt Publishing; 1st edition (December 27, 2019)
Publication date : December 27, 2019
Language : English
File size : 12737 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Not Enabled
Print length : 512 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 1789537614
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Skytide –
My Favorite Book on .NET Web API and .NET Core
I’ve gone through a lot of different .NET Web API books and most of them are confusing and not very complete. Sometimes I’ll get lucky and find a good chapter about Web API in some .NET related book. For example, I found a good chapter about Web API in a .Net React book, but it wasn’t as in-depth as this book (since it was only one chapter). This book is by far one of the better books covering all you need to know to start developing .NET Web API. It covers a lot of .NET Core concepts as well, which are needed for Web API. Because of this, it is a very complete book. I like that the author understands many of the intricacies of .NET and explains them in this book.I was confused about some of the bad ratings. I didn’t see a lot of fluff in the book. Instead I saw a lot of valuable information. Maybe for someone who doesn’t want to learn the small details might find this book overwhelming. But, if you want to be a good developer/programmer, you need to know the details. I’ve worked with too many developers who don’t understand what they are doing and end up creating messy code.I highly recommend this book. I know .NET 6 is already out, but I couldn’t find any newer books on Web API that I liked. So, I’m sticking with this one.
Felix –
Tries to cover a lot of topics. Mostly succeeds
This book covers a lot of fairly advanced topics in less than 500 pages:- Middleware- Filters- Storing temporary (shopping cart) data using Redis- Resilience using Polly- Event bus using RabbitMQ- Distributed caching using Redis- HATEOAS- Swaggerin addition, of course, to standard concepts like Entity Framework with Repository Pattern, Unit Testing, JWT-based authorization, etc.The book also covers third-party tools and technologies, like Docker, Azure, Postman.So, sometimes you get a feeling that there is too much information crammed (many “advanced” books suffer from opposite problem – they try to explain in excruciating details even the most basic concepts). I could live without Repository pattern (IMHO, obsolete approach nowadays) and Azure deployment (we standardize on AWS). And with focus on Docker – there was no explanation how to deploy RabbitMQ or Redis without it. If you don’t have prior experience – you will not get guidance from this book.But I understand that the author has to draw the balance somewhere – this may be perfect for somebody else. As they say, YMMV. Things that I learned about resilience in the chapter about Polly are perfect for me! The biggest downside for me is that from chapter 11 there is no way to actually run the code that we are developing!This book is clearly written by non-English native speaker… and would strongly benefit from a good technical editor. Some advanced topics are very difficult to understand because of that; and Chapter 15 indeed has a number of embarrassing errors. But overall, this is a book from which I learned a number of advanced skills and will refer to for months to come!NOTE to Amazon: book page shows that there are 3 reviews, but it only shows 1! Also, for some strange reason you do not allow comments on non-US reviews (probably for GDPR or some other weird reason). For the company that has AWS division that touts easing of GDPR compliance, this should be really embarrassing!
Buti Tlhoaele –
Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3
The exact material I was looking for…
tracy mccarhty –
Clear explanations for all topics covered
This covers all topics needed to create web site in .NET. Nice definitions for routing which I found most useful
Fabio S. –
It’s got information in it… but the fluff! 🙁
I know kind of a strange headline, but what I mean is this book has some good information in it, but it’s strangely formatted and there is too much fluff in it. It led me to have to read and re-read certain parts thinking, “wait, why is the author taking the time to state something that is obvious, did I miss something!?”. Also the subtitle of the book leads me to think this book is a professional reference, but really it’s all demo code.The fluff – Chapter summary sections are ended with a summary of the chapter and a bit of information about the next chapter, and the next chapter starts with a summary of the previous chapter that I just read… fluff. This is 450+ pages book, I don’t know why the author had to waste so many lines, just get to the points. I’ve got 5 other books to read.My biggest issue is with chapter 15, Securing APIs with token-based authentication starting page 372 all the way to the end of page 386. I don’t even know what to say… Yes, the information is there, good luck making sense of it.If you have an electronic version of this book, can you let us know how many times the author uses the words: Therefore and furthermore? It’s crazy!
Joseph A. Francis –
One of the Best Programming Books I Have Ever Read
I have 28 years of professional experience and have read thousands of books on software development. This one is clear and to the point. I am not sure why there are bad reviews, but perhaps it is because the book is not helpful for absolute beginners. You really do need to understand C# and .NET to jump into this book, but for any experienced developer, this book is the only book you need for ASP.NET Core RESTful services.
Satish –
Be careful with Packt book
most of the PACKT book are poorly written and very badly organized books. this is the 3rd bad book from the publisher i encountered in the last 2 weeks and i returned all of them
Cliente Amazon –
Not well written, often the explanations are not clear..