Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6
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Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6
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Re: Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6
#2So I guess we've had 'JavaScript but like C#', in the form of TypeScript; so I suppose now we get 'C# like JavaScript'? I must admit, I find this amusing.
I suppose this raises two questions: "Why use C# like this in place of express or koa on node, which idiomatically similar?", and "Why use C# like this instead of C# like that (the way all other AspNetCore apps do it)?"
Re: Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6
#3Translation for non-web-people: how to write a minimal web service in dotNET. I probably missed when the acronym "API" was hijacked by the web people to describe a custom web service protocol.
Re: Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6
#4So I guess we've had 'JavaScript but like C#', in the form of TypeScript; so I suppose now we get 'C# like JavaScript'? I must admit, I find this amusing. I suppose this raises two questions: "Why use C# like this in place of express or koa on node, which idiomatically similar?", and "Why use C# like this instead of C# like that (the way all other AspNetCore apps do it)?"
because you dont want to work with a broken module system?
im talking about you, ESM, for all the headaches you induced me on TypeORM and NestJS. I really miss the proper Java packages and dotnet namespaces design
Re: Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6
#5So I guess we've had 'JavaScript but like C#', in the form of TypeScript; so I suppose now we get 'C# like JavaScript'? I must admit, I find this amusing. I suppose this raises two questions: "Why use C# like this in place of express or koa on node, which idiomatically similar?", and "Why use C# like this instead of C# like that (the way all other AspNetCore apps do it)?"
The same can be done in pretty much any other language, it's just a HTTP server wrapper which maps specific URL paths to callback functions which return a HTTP response.
E.g. in Go: https://gobyexample.com/http-servers, or in Python via Flask: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.0.x/quickstart/#routi...
Re: Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6
#6So I guess we've had 'JavaScript but like C#', in the form of TypeScript; so I suppose now we get 'C# like JavaScript'? I must admit, I find this amusing. I suppose this raises two questions: "Why use C# like this in place of express or koa on node, which idiomatically similar?", and "Why use C# like this instead of C# like that (the way all other AspNetCore apps do it)?"
I think the fact that this maintains type safety, IDE integration and other useful traits of modern C# like zero-allocation primitives gives it a leg up over TypeScript/JS in some cases.
Re: Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6
#7Translation for non-web-people: how to write a minimal web service in dotNET. I probably missed when the acronym "API" was hijacked by the web people to describe a custom web service protocol.
I think the point is that the .NET API for writing a minimal web service is now more minimal, thanks to being designed around lambdas instead of heavy use of OOP. The web server API is just an example of this style of .NET API.
Re: Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6
#8The old convention based model for controllers, was really difficult to understand and debug. You never knew what routes exactly were discovered by reflection. It was just too much magic, and too many conventions.
I hope this will make it easier. Reminds me of the good old Nancy times.
Re: Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6
#9So I guess we've had 'JavaScript but like C#', in the form of TypeScript; so I suppose now we get 'C# like JavaScript'? I must admit, I find this amusing. I suppose this raises two questions: "Why use C# like this in place of express or koa on node, which idiomatically similar?", and "Why use C# like this instead of C# like that (the way all other AspNetCore apps do it)?"
They neither broke the type system to make it weaker nor did they stick a browser engine where it doesn't belong.
Re: Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6
#10So basically this is expressjs for .NET.