Web API Development for the Absolute Beginner: A Step-by-step Approach to Learning the Fundamentals of Web API Development with .NET 7

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4. Web API: Building Blocks

Irina Dominte¹  

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Iasi, Romania

 

In this chapter we will learn a few concepts that help us set the ground for working with ASP.NET Web API. We will learn why some things need to be implementing respecting some rules and how we can leverage what the platform has to offer.

Convention Over Configuration

Convention over configuration is a design philosophy that seeks to apply defaults implied by code structure rather than requiring explicit code.

In other words, as long as we respect the conventions, given there is no need to configure ...