ThoughtFul

A basic API for a blogging platform, built with .NET 6 minimal API

Architecture

One of the main benefits I see in the .NET 6 minimal API is that it less opinionated on how you should organize your code then the regular controller-based approach. That's why we have implemented a minimal API using the following principles:

1. Vertical slices architecture (feature-based organization)
2. CQRS using MediatR
3. Auto-registered modules for each feature
4. AutoMapper
5. Record types for DTOs
6. (Kind of) rich domain model
7. No repository and services layer. Everything is handled by the IRequestHandlers
8. Splitting read and write endpoints into different files

Run the API

Running the API is very easy:

1. Provide a connection string in the appsettings.json file
2. Run update-database in the Package Manager Console or with the .NET Core CLI (make sure you target the Thoightful.Dal project, as all migrations are there)
3. Run the API and play with it
4. You'll need the .NET 6 RC2 SDK to run the app. My suggestion is to run it in Visual Studio 2022.

Further resources

This project was built during 4 different live coding sessions on Youtube. YouTube channel: Codewrinkles

1. Creating a .NET 6 minimal API from scratch (Part 1)
2. Creating a .NET 6 minimal API from scratch (Part 2)
3. Creating a .NET 6 minimal API from scratch (Part 3)
4. Creating a .NET 6 minimal API from scratch (Part 4)