aspnet-core

You build a secure REST API with JWT authentication in ASP.NET Core by configuring token generation and validation within the middleware pipeline. This enforces authorization policies across Minimal API or MVC endpoints to protect web services.

The best way to structure an ASP.NET Core web API is to use Minimal APIs for lightweight routing and EF Core for data access via dependency injection. This enforces clean architecture patterns to separate business logic from endpoint definitions.

Yes, you can integrate Swagger OpenAPI documentation with Minimal APIs in .NET 8. Configuring it in the middleware pipeline generates API documentation and provides a testing UI to validate endpoints during development.

Yes, this ASP.NET Core guidance applies to both Minimal APIs and MVC controllers. It provides architectural patterns for lightweight endpoint routing and structured controller-based web services using .NET 8+.

Avoid Minimal APIs when your ASP.NET Core project requires complex view rendering or heavy structured controller separation. Use MVC controllers and clean architecture patterns to better organize large-scale web applications with complex domain logic.