Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring this chapter's topics with deeper research.

Exercise 9.1 – Online material

JSON Web Tokens are an open, industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties. JWT.IO allows you to decode, verify and generate JWT: https://jwt.io/introduction

Improved route tooling

For .NET 8, Microsoft improved the tooling for working with routes for all ASP.NET Core technologies including controller-based Web APIs, Minimal APIs, and Blazor. The features include the following list:

• Route syntax highlighting: Different parts of routes are now highlighted in your code editor.
• Autocompletion of parameter and route names, and route constraints.
• Route analyzers and fixers: These address the common problems that developers have when implementing their routes.

You can read about them in the blog article ASP.NET Core Route Tooling...