9 Reasons Why ASP.NET 5.0 is a Right Choice To Build Your Next APIs
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ASP.NET 5.0 is a cross-platform, high-performance and open-source framework with lot so many well tested out-of-the-box features that are ready to use. That makes it right choice to build backend APIs.
1. Cross platform
ASP.NET 5.0 is cross-platform. That means you can use Windows, MacOS or Linux to build, run, deploy and host your application built using ASP.NET 5.0. Both Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Community are available cross-platform and are used by many developers as their day to day development tool.
Your ASP.NET 5.0 API project can be easily deployed to multiple platforms to host it inside IIS, Nginx, Apache, Docker or self-hosted model.
2. In-built Environment Targeting
ASP.NET 5.0 comes with in-built environment-based configuration system that is very useful when you want to separate out your development, staging, testing and production environment configurations.
3. High Performance
ASP.NET 5.0 development is modular and has lightweight HTTP request pipeline that makes it high-performance. Its built to provide fully flexible HTTP request pipeline customization using its middleware mechanism and still uses the simplest and smallest possible HTTP request pipeline by default to serve any request that is coming through.
4. MVC & Testable
ASP.NET 5.0 supports Model-View-Controller pattern that makes it possible to make our APIs easily testable. It also provides built-in dependency injection capabilities for the same purpose.
5. Data Access, ORM & Entity Framework
Entity Framework for ASP.NET 5.0 development makes it easy to access data from any database using Entity Framework. Apart from Microsoft Sql Server, it also supports MongoDb, MySql and PostgreSql which makes it a great choice. Regardless of the database server that you use, Entity Framework development is almost unified to access any database that you are using.
6. Security
ASP.NET 5.0 community has very good open source projects like Identity Server, jwt token authentication and ASP.NET Identity which makes it easy for your API to integrate any kind of authentication like forms authentication, social authentication, token authentication, OAuth based authentication etc.
7. RESTful
ASP.NET 5.0 has in build support to follow best practices while building RESTful APIs. With ASP.NET Core Web API, Building RESTful clean urls, API versioning, localization and globalization etc is already resolved for you and you just need to focus on building business specific RESTful APIs.
8. Swagger & Open API
ASP.NET 5.0 supports integration of Swagger & Open API that makes it easy to automatically document your API end points that is huge help for any developer who is integrating your API to their application.
9. Client-side development
ASP.NET 5.0 integrates seamlessly with popular client-side frameworks and libraries, including Angular, React, and Bootstrap.
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