An Atypical ASP.NET Core 6 Design Patterns Guide - Second Edition

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Mediator and CQRS Design Patterns

This chapter covers the building blocks of the next chapter, which is about Vertical Slice Architecture. We begin with a quick overview of Vertical Slice Architecture to give you an idea of the end goal. Then, we explore the Mediator design pattern, which plays the role of the middleman between the components of our application. That leads us to the Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) pattern, which describes how to divide our logic into commands and queries. Finally, to piece all of that together, we explore MediatR, an open source implementation of the Mediator design pattern.

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

• A high-level overview of Vertical Slice Architecture
• Implementing ...