Technology .NET Core
9 Reasons Why ASP.NET Core is a Right Choice To Build Your Next APIs
- Prashant Lakhlani
- Wednesday, February 28, 2018
ASP.NET 5.0 is a cross-platform, high-performance and open-source framework with lot so many well tested out-of-the-box features that are ready to use. That makes it right choice to build backend APIs.
ASP.NET Coreis a cross-platform, high-performance and open-source framework with lot so many well tested out-of-the-box features that are ready to use. That makes it right choice to build backend APIs.
1. Cross platform
ASP.NET Coreis cross-platform. That means you can use Windows, MacOS or Linux to build, run, deploy and host your application built usingASP.NET Core. Both Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Community are available cross-platform and are used by many developers as their day to day development tool.
YourASP.NET CoreAPI project can be easily deployed to multiple platforms to host it inside IIS, Nginx, Apache, Docker or self-hosted model.
2. In-built Environment Targeting
ASP.NET Corecomes with in-built environment-basedconfiguration systemthat is very useful when you want to separate out your development, staging, testing and production environment configurations.
3. High Performance
ASP.NET Core developmentis modular and has lightweight HTTP request pipeline that makes ithigh-performance. Its built to provide fully flexible HTTP request pipeline customization using its middleware mechanism and still uses the simplest and smallest possible HTTP request pipeline by default to serve any request that is coming through.
4. MVC & Testable
ASP.NET CoresupportsModel-View-Controllerpattern that makes it possible to make our APIs easily testable. It also provides built-in dependency injection capabilities for the same purpose.
5. Data Access, ORM & Entity Framework
Entity FrameworkforASP.NET Core developmentmakes it easy to access data from any database using Entity Framework. Apart from Microsoft Sql Server, it also supports MongoDb, MySql and PostgreSql which makes it a great choice. Regardless of the database server that you use,Entity Frameworkdevelopment is almost unified to access any database that you are using.
6. Security
ASP.NET Corecommunity has very good open source projects likeIdentity Server,jwt token authenticationandASP.NET Identitywhich makes it easy for your API to integrate any kind of authentication like forms authentication, social authentication, token authentication, OAuth based authentication etc.
7. RESTful
ASP.NET Corehas in build support tofollow best practices while building RESTful APIs. WithASP.NET CoreWeb API, Building RESTful clean urls, API versioning, localization and globalization etc is already resolved for you and you just need to focus on building business specific RESTful APIs.
8. Swagger & Open API
ASP.NET Coresupports integration ofSwagger & Open APIthat makes it easy to automatically document your API end points that is huge help for any developer who is integrating your API to their application.
9. Client-side development
ASP.NET Coreintegrates seamlessly with popular client-side frameworks and libraries, includingAngular, React, and Bootstrap.
