Designing and securing custom web APIs

Custom web APIs can be created using Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio 2019. For creating web APIs, the following programming languages are available:

• ASP.NET
• ASP.NET Core

• Angular
• React.js

Designing your web API

This demo will be created using .NET Core Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2019. Begin by opening up Visual Studio 2019 and following these steps:

1. Click on File | New | Project and, in the new Project window, select ASP.NET Core Web Application. Click Create. Call the project PacktPubToDoAPI and click Create.
2. A pop-up window will open up where you can select the API template. Select ASP.NET Core 2.2 and click on Create:

Creating...