Streamline your .NET 8 projects with minimal APIs — no more cluttered Program.cs files

Master Minimal APIs in .NET 8: Streamline Development and Boost Performance

A practical guide to building clean, efficient minimal APIs in .NET 8, helping you simplify code structure and improve project maintainability.

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Building scalable and maintainable web APIs can be tough, especially as your application gets more complex. Handling HTTP requests, ensuring a clear separation of concerns, and keeping consistency across endpoints are just a few of the challenges developers face. Luckily, with the release of .NET 8, there are new tools and patterns designed to make this process easier. One of these approaches is the Request-Endpoint-Response (REPR) pattern.

Minimal APIs were first introduced in ASP.NET Core 6.0 as a simpler way to build HTTP APIs, and they’ve been around for a while now. But why should you use Minimal APIs instead of the classic MVC/Controller approach that many developers are comfortable with?

Minimal APIs take a minimalist approach, allowing you to quickly go from an idea to a functioning application without all the extra boilerplate. They give you all the features of C# web applications without the hassle. As your web application grows, Minimal APIs grow…