In the next sections, we’ll implement a simple web API in ASP.NET Core. After we create our API, we’ll implement a Refit client to consume it.

We won’t be using any of those features here. Click Create. We’ll use this ASP.NET Core Web API project to work with the code examples given in the sections below.

Several features have been added to Minimal APIs with the .NET 7 release. This tutorial shows how they are now almost as powerful as traditional controller-based APIs while being far less verbose.