ASP.NET Core developers can choose between Minimal APIs and traditional MVC controllers, each offering unique structure and performance implications. This analysis highlights the request lifecycle differences and performance benchmarks. Generally, Minimal APIs are slightly faster, though real-world conditions often diminish the timing significance. Code organization also varies, with MVC providing inherent structure.
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How the ASP.NET Runtime Works – part 2
This content outlines the request pipeline in an ASP.NET Core application, detailing its construction from the initial application builder through to the execution of requests. The process includes building and configuring middleware, managing endpoints, and handling requests with various delegate types. The final transition to live execution occurs upon calling Run, finalizing the pipeline.
How the ASP.NET Runtime Works – part 1
This article describes the startup process of an ASP.NET Core application, focusing on the WebApplication.CreateBuilder method that initializes the web host, configuration, dependency injection, and logging. It highlights server options like Kestrel and HTTP.sys, and the role of reverse proxies such as IIS, Nginx, and Apache in managing HTTP requests.
Model Binding in Minimal API
Model binding in web development is the process of mapping HTTP request data to programming objects. ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs automate this, handling types and validation seamlessly. It prioritizes binding methods: custom BindAsync, TryParse for simples, and property matching for complex types. Dependency injection is also streamlined, ensuring efficient handling of services.
Debunking ASP.NET Core Routing
Routing in ASP.NET Core is essential for request processing, evolving from traditional MVC patterns to Minimal APIs. The UseRouting middleware matches HTTP requests to defined endpoints, while UseEndpoints executes corresponding handlers. The system is unified and endpoint-driven, providing capabilities like model binding and automatic validation across different routing models.
Minimal APIs vs MVC Controllers: A Comparative Guide
In 2021, Microsoft launched Minimal APIs with .NET 6, presenting a streamlined approach to creating web services compared to traditional MVC Controllers. While they offer quicker request handling, both types share a common processing pipeline. Minimal APIs simplify routing and execution, but over time, their efficiency may align more closely with MVC controllers.
Why Testing in Production is Essential for Modern Software
In the realm of software development, testing is a crucial practice that ensures the reliability, performance, and correctness of applications. While traditional testing strategies often emphasize environments like development and staging, an increasingly advocated practice is testing in production (TiP). This concept might initially sound counterintuitive or risky, but when executed properly, it can leadContinue reading “Why Testing in Production is Essential for Modern Software”
Understanding the Virtual DOM Pattern
The Virtual DOM (VDOM) represents a method used in web development, associated with JavaScript libraries and frameworks like React, to optimize the updating of webpage content. It creates an in-memory representation of the Document Object Model (DOM), thus allowing more efficient updates and minimizing the impact of dynamic changes. Although the concept is widely used in React and Angular frameworks, it is considered an unnecessary layer in vanilla-JS applications due to their more efficient and direct way of updating the UI.
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