PM> Install-Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression

{
    "dependencies": {
        "Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression": "1.0.0"
    }
}

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
    {
        options.MimeTypes = Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression.ResponseCompressionDefaults.MimeTypes;
    });
}

namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Defaults for the ResponseCompressionMiddleware
    /// </summary>
    public class ResponseCompressionDefaults
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Default MIME types to compress responses for.
        /// </summary>
        // This list is not intended to be exhaustive, it's a baseline for the 90% case.
        public static readonly IEnumerable<string> MimeTypes = new[]
        {
            // General
            "text/plain",
            // Static files
            "text/css",
            "application/javascript",
            // MVC
            "text/html",
            "application/xml",
            "text/xml",
            "application/json",
            "text/json",
        };
    }
}

services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
{
    options.MimeTypes = ResponseCompressionDefaults.MimeTypes.Concat(new[]
                                {
                                    "image/svg+xml",
                                    "application/font-woff2"
                                });
            });

services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
{
  //If no compression providers are specified then GZip is used by default.
  //options.Providers.Add<GzipCompressionProvider>();

services.Configure<GzipCompressionProviderOptions>(options =>
{
  options.Level = System.IO.Compression.CompressionLevel.Optimal;
});

 options.EnableForHttps = true;

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
   app.UseResponseCompression()  // Adds the response compression to the request pipeline
   .UseStaticFiles(); // Adds the static middleware to the request pipeline  
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app,
                      IHostingEnvironment env,
                      ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
{
    app.UseResponseCompression()
       .UseStaticFiles(
           new StaticFileOptions
           {
               OnPrepareResponse =
                   _ => _.Context.Response.Headers[HeaderNames.CacheControl] = 
                        "public,max-age=604800" // A week in seconds
           })
       .UseMvc(routes => routes.MapRoute("default", "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}"));
}

 PM> Install-Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Rewrite

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
    app.UseRewriter(new RewriteOptions()
                            .AddRedirectToHttps()
                            .AddRewrite(@"app/(\d+)", "app?id=$1", skipRemainingRules: false) // Rewrite based on a Regular expression
                            //.AddRedirectToHttps(302, 5001) // Redirect to a different port and use HTTPS
                            .AddRedirect("(.*)/$", "$1")  // remove trailing slash, Redirect using a regular expression
                            .AddRedirect(@"^section1/(.*)", "new/$1", (int)HttpStatusCode.Redirect)
                            .AddRedirect(@"^section2/(\\d+)/(.*)", "new/$1/$2", (int)HttpStatusCode.MovedPermanently)
                            .AddRewrite("^feed$", "/?format=rss", skipRemainingRules: false));

 app.UseRewriter(new RewriteOptions()
.AddIISUrlRewrite(env.ContentRootFileProvider, "web.config")
.AddApacheModRewrite(env.ContentRootFileProvider, ".htaccess"));

public class RedirectWwwRule : Microsoft.AspNetCore.Rewrite.IRule
{
    public int StatusCode { get; } = (int)HttpStatusCode.MovedPermanently;
    public bool ExcludeLocalhost { get; set; } = true;
    public void ApplyRule(RewriteContext context)
    {
        var request = context.HttpContext.Request;
        var host = request.Host;
        if (host.Host.StartsWith("www", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            context.Result = RuleResult.ContinueRules;
            return;
        }
        if (ExcludeLocalhost && string.Equals(host.Host, "localhost", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            context.Result = RuleResult.ContinueRules;
            return;
        }
        string newPath = request.Scheme + "://www." + host.Value + request.PathBase + request.Path + request.QueryString;
 
        var response = context.HttpContext.Response;
        response.StatusCode = StatusCode;
        response.Headers[HeaderNames.Location] = newPath;
        context.Result = RuleResult.EndResponse; // Do not continue processing the request
    }
}

 app.UseRewriter(new RewriteOptions().Add(new RedirectWwwRule()));

 var options = new RewriteOptions().Add(app.ApplicationServices.GetService<RedirectWwwRule>());

The following high-level features are planned for the ASP.NET Core 2.1 release:

SignalR - Real-time web framework on ASP.NET Core (aspnet/SignalR#394)
HTTPS - On by default and easy to configure (aspnet/Home#2308)
GDPR compliance - Templates updated with new privacy features (aspnet/Security#1561, aspnet/Identity#1341)
Web API conventions - Rich Swagger support without attributes (aspnet/Mvc#6870, aspnet/Mvc#6784)
IHttpClientFactory - HttpClient as a service, handle cross-cutting concerns like caching, retry logic, timeouts and circuit breakers (aspnet/HttpClientFactory#42)
ASP.NET Core Module in-proc hosting - 6x the throughput on IIS! Better startup error handling (aspnet/AspNetCoreModule#265)
Razor pages improvements - Support for areas, ~/Pages/Shared (aspnet/Mvc#6926, aspnet/Mvc#7193)
MVC functional test fixture - Easily test your MVC apps end-to-end (aspnet/Mvc#6233)
Build-time Razor - Compile Razor pages and views as part of your build, improved startup performance (aspnet/Razor#1809)
UI as a library - Package Razor pages and views as reusable libraries (aspnet/Razor#1809)
Identity UI package and scaffolder - Add identity to any application (aspnet/Home#2311)
WebHooks - Handle WebHook notifications from ASP.NET Core apps (aspnet/WebHooks#5)

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