What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to Microservices and Service-Oriented Architecture, discusses the state of service-oriented architecture trends in the industry, as well as what microservices architecture brings to the table.

Chapter 2, Understanding HTTP and REST, refreshes the concept of web architecture and describes the core technology and concept behind HTTP and its methods, and you will be introduced to the REST architecture style.

Chapter 3, Anatomy of ASP.NET Core Web API, takes you on a journey to understand why web API was incepted, as well as gets you started on creating ASP.NET Core Web API and understanding its anatomy.

Chapter 4, Controllers, Actions, and Models, covers the core concept of how a request interacts with a controller, works with the controller dispatch process, customizes the controller dispatch process, and works with the action method results.

Chapter 5, Implementing Routing, helps you in understanding how routing maps incoming HTTP requests to its corresponding controller's action methods.

Chapter 6, Middleware and Filters, delves deep into one of ASP.NET Core's prominent feature--Middleware and Filters.

Chapter 7, Perform Unit and Integration Testing, explains how to write unit tests and perform integration testing for the web API.

Chapter 8, Web API Security, explores concepts on identification, authentication, and authorization for the web API.

Chapter 9, Integration with Database, integrates with various database using ORM such as EF 6, EF Core, and Dapper.

Chapter 10, Error Handling, Tracing, and Logging, explores the ASP.NET Core's in-built logging feature, and shows you how to write efficient error handling code.

Chapter 11, Optimization and Performance, explains the asynchronous ways of writing web API, and how to apply the caching technique for a better web API performance.

Chapter 12, Hosting and Deployment, deploys the ASP.NET Core Web API on various platforms such as IIS, Stand-alone, Docker, Azure, Linux, and so on. It showcases its true cross-platforms nature.

Chapter 13, Modern Web Frontends, consumes the web API developed from previous chapters in UI frameworks such as Angular, Ionic, React, and so on.