In the previous section, we looked into a pictorial representation of the middleware request pipeline processing. In this section, you will learn the role of middleware in the request pipeline by writing a code.
Create an Empty ASP.NET Core application and comment out/remove the default code in the Configure method of the Startup class.
We will write a code to understand the four extension methods from the previous section: Use(), Run(), Map(), and MapWhen() of IApplicationBuilder.
The middleware components accept the RequestDelegate method. They are the functions that process the HTTP request with a signature as follows:
public delegate Task RequestDelegate(HttpContext context);
It takes in one parameter of HttpContext ...
