In this chapter, we will cover some of the topics that didn't fit in earlier chapters of this book. This is because although they are important, there was no ideal location for them in previous chapters or they would require a mini-chapter of their own.
Some of these topics are quite important—namely, Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC), a new technology for cross-platform, cross-technology, strong-typed messaging. gRPC integrates well with thenewASP.NET Core endpoint routing system, which allows ASP.NET Core to serve pretty much any protocol you can think of. We will also cover the best practices for using Entity Framework (EF) Core with ASP.NET Core. Static files are also important because we can't live without them.
Essentially, the topics we will cover in this chapter include the following:
- Areas
- Static files
- Application lifetime...
