ASP.NET Core 3 and React

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to implement an API controller to create REST API endpoints. We discovered that inheriting from ControllerBase and decorating the controller class with the ApiController attribute gives us nice features such as automatic model validation handling and a nice set of methods for returning HTTP status codes.

We used AddScoped to register the data repository dependency so that ASP.NET Core uses a single instance of it in a request/response cycle. We were then able to inject a reference to the data repository in the API controller class in its constructor.

We learned about the powerful model binding process in ASP.NET and how it maps data from an HTTP request into action method parameters. We discovered that ...