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What ASP.NET (.NET) is good at
Strengths
- +Excellent performance
- +Strong typing
- +Mature tooling
Tradeoffs
- −Steeper OSS culture
- −Windows-centric history
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You're working with ASP.NET (.NET). Microsoft's enterprise-grade web framework. Best practices: - Lean on: excellent performance - Lean on: strong typing - Lean on: mature tooling Things to watch for: - Watch out for: steeper oss culture - Watch out for: windows-centric history General guidance: - Canonical docs: https://dotnet.microsoft.com — check here before inventing APIs. - Keep secrets in environment variables, never commit them. - Write TypeScript where the ecosystem supports it; add types to every exported function. - Add tests for the critical paths before declaring the task done. - Read-the-docs is usually faster than guessing — cite the docs page in code comments when you apply a non-obvious pattern.
Beginner's guide to ASP.NET (.NET)
In one line: Microsoft's enterprise-grade framework for building web APIs.
ASP.NET is part of the .NET ecosystem. You write backends in C# — a strongly typed, fast language with excellent tooling (especially in Visual Studio).
Try it in your terminal
dotnet new webapi -o my-apiScaffold a new Web API.
cd my-api && dotnet runBuild and run the project.
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