A simple yet organized project template for building ASP.NET Core APIs in .NET Core 3.1

Tools and Frameworks Used

• .NET Core 3.1
• ASP.NET Core - For building RESTful APIs
• Dapper - For data access.
• AutoMapper - For mapping entity models to DTOs.
• AutoWrapper - For handling request Exceptions and consistent HTTP response format.
• AutoWrapper.Server - For unwrapping the Result attribute from AutoWrapper's ApiResponse output.
• Swashbuckle.AspNetCore - For securing API documentation.
• FluentValidation.AspNetCore - For Model validations
• Serilog.AspNetCore - For logging capabilities
• IdentityServer4.AccessTokenValidation - For JWT Authentication handling
• Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Polly - For handling HttpClient Resilience and Transient fault-handling
• AspNetCoreRateLimit - For controlling the rate of requests that clients can make to an external API based on IP address or client ID.
• AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks - For performing health checks
• Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks - For getting the results of Health Checks in the application
• AspNetCore.HealthChecks.UI - For Health Status visualization
• xUnit and Moq - For unit testing.  

Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release:

Servers & middleware
  Antiforgery middleware
API authoring
  Antiforgery integration for minimal APIs
Native AOT
  Request Delegate Generator supports interceptors feature
  Full TrimMode is used for web projects compiled with trimming enabled
  WebApplication.CreateEmptyBuilder
Blazor
  Antiforgery integration
  Server-side form handling improvements
  Auto render mode
  Register root-level cascading values
  Improved integration of interactive components with server-side rendering
  New EmptyContent parameter for Virtualize
Identity
  New bearer token authentication handler
  New API endpoints
Single page apps (SPA)
  New Visual Studio templates
 

.NET 7 💥 - Angular Authentication with JWT (JSON WEB TOKEN)

In this video we will be going to be exploring the full authentication process from frontend with Angular and backend with WebApi and database as SQLite with JWT 

My road for the series is as follows,

    RESTful Day #1: Enterprise level application architecture with Web APIs using Entity Framework, Generic Repository pattern and Unit of Work.
    RESTful Day #2: Inversion of control using dependency injection in Web APIs using Unity Container and Bootstrapper.
    RESTful Day #3: Resolve dependency of dependencies using Inversion of Control and dependency injection in Asp.net Web APIs with Unity Container and Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF).
    RESTful Day #4: Custom URL Re-Writing/Routing using Attribute Routes in MVC 4 Web APIs.
    RESTful Day #5: Basic Authentication and Token based custom Authorization in Web APIs using Action Filters.
    RESTful Day #6: Request logging and Exception handing/logging in Web APIs using Action Filters, Exception Filters and nLog.
    RESTful Day #7: Unit testing ASP.NET Web APIs controllers using nUnit.
    RESTful Day #8: Extending OData support in ASP.NET Web APIs.

Professional REST API design with ASP.NET Core and WebAPI

This project is an example of lightweight and extensible infrastructure for building RESTful Web API with ASP.NET Core.

This example contains a number of tricks and techniques which I've learned while building APIs in ASP.NET Core.

Techniques and Features

•  JWT Authentication
• Secure JWT using Encryption (JWE)
• Logging to File, Console and Database using Elmah & NLog
• Logging to sentry.io (Log Management System)
• Exception Handling using Custom Middleware
• Automatic Validation
• Standard API Resulting
• Dependency Injection using Autofac
• Map resources using AutoMapper
• Async/Await Best Practices
• Versioning Management
• Using Swagger (Swashbuckle)
• Auto Document Generator for Swagger
• Integrate Swagger and Versioning
• Integrate Swagger and JWT/OAuth Authentication
• Best Practices for Performance and Security 

ASP.Net Core 3 Identity with Json Web Token (JWT) 

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced their support for Blazor, and now Frank A. Krueger has developed the Ooui library which allows C# or F# to be used to write applications that run in the browser.  Ooui can target WASM, enabling Xamarin.Forms app to be deployed in web assembly and the result runs entirely in-browser without the need for an application server.