Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core

3 RESTful principles and guidelines

This chapter covers

• Reviewing the six REST guiding constraints
• Setting up and configuring CORS and caching techniques in ASP.NET Core
• Understanding the role of reverse proxies and CDN services
• Implementing code on demand with a use-case example
• Adopting a uniform interface with HATEOAS capabilities
• Adding API documentation and versioning with Swagger/OpenAPI

Now that we have a minimal web API boilerplate up and running, we’re ready to review the representational state transfer (REST) properties and constraints briefly introduced in chapter 1 and see how they can be implemented in ASP.NET Core. Specifically, we’ll add some built-in and third-party services and middleware to our existing MyBGList project to ...