ASP.NET into Open Source world

Every technology has to evolve with growing needs and advancements in the hardware, network, and software industry, and the ASP.NET Web API is no exception to that.

Some of the changes that ASP.NET Web API should undergo from the perspectives of the developer community, enterprises, and end users are as follows:

• Although ASP.NET MVC and web API are part of the ASP.NET stack, but their implementation and code base is different. A unified code base reduces the burden of maintaining them.
• It's known that web APIs are consumed by various clients such as web applications, native apps, hybrid apps, and desktop applications using different technologies (.NET or non .NET). But how about developing a web API in a cross-platform way, where the developer need not always rely on Windows OS/Visual Studio IDE.
• The ASP.NET stack should be made open source so that it's adopted on a much bigger scale.
• End users are benefitted with open source innovations.

We saw why web APIs were incepted, how they evolved into a powerful HTTP-based service, and some evolutions that are required. With these thoughts, Microsoft made an entry into the world of Open Source by launching .NET Core and ASP.NET Core.