Mastering ASP.NET Web API

Using StaticFiles middleware

Static files (HTML, CSS, images, JS files) are served from the wwwroot folder in ASP.NET Core applications. In this section, let's add a built-in static file serving middleware loading all the assets from the wwwroot folder.

Create an empty ASP.NET Core project, or you can continue from the preceding middleware code examples. The NuGet package of Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles used for serving static contents is already part of Microsoft.AspNetCore.All.

Open the Startup class and add the following code in the Configure method to use this StaticFiles middleware:

    app.UseStaticFiles(); 

Create an HTML file, index.html, in wwwroot; this is the static file that will be served when the application runs:

 <!DOCTYPE ...