ArchitectNow.ApiStarter

This project is setup as a baseline ASP.NET Core 2.2 API demonstration used by ArchitectNow in a corresponding workshop or class. This project is very opinionated and utilizes a number of 3rd party open source libraries to piece together a robust foundation on which to build APIs.

If there are any questions regarding this setup please don't hesitate to reach out at [email protected]. If you are interested in any of ArchitectNow's workshops check out our website at www.architectnow.net/workshops.

Development Urls

• Swagger UI: http://localhost:5000/docs
• Swagger JSON: http://localhost:5000/docs/1.0/swagger.json
• Healthcheck UI: http://localhost:5000/healthchecks-ui

Key Technologies Utilized

• C#
• ASP.NET Core 2.2 - https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core
• Autofac - https://autofac.org/
• Automapper - http://automapper.org/
• FluentValidation - https://fluentvalidation.net/
• Serilog - https://serilog.net/
• NSwag for ASP.NET Core - https://github.com/RSuter/NSwag (for Swagger integration and NSwag support)
• xUnit for the unit test harness - https://xunit.github.io/

Additional Tools, Libraries, and Concepts

Swagger/Open API

The sample project exposes a Swagger compliant UI (3.0) and thus supports any external Swagger compliant tool or viewer. More information on the Swagger and Open API specifications and tool ecosystem can be found here: https://swagger.io/

Postman

Many developers find it useful to use the cross-platform Postman tool (https://www.getpostman.com/) to interact with their API during development.

API Versioning

This version of the sample API utilizes Microsoft's new ASP.NET Core API Versioning libraries. More information on these features can be found here: https://github.com/Microsoft/aspnet-api-versioning

Health Checks

This version of the sample API utilizes Microsoft's new ASP.NET Core Health Check infrastructure. More information on these features can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/health-checks?view=aspnetcore-2.2

Database Layer

Repository layer is set up for MongoDb (https://www.mongodb.com/) and utilizes the MongoDB.Driver library for .NET (https://docs.mongodb.com/ecosystem/drivers/csharp/)

.NET Standard

All libraries are NetCore or NetStandard 2.0 compliant and all original development was done on MacBook Pro's using Rider by Jetbrains (https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/)