Embrace the request-endpoint-response design pattern to simplify API development and make your code cleaner, more efficient, and easier to maintain.

In using the Repository design pattern, you can hide the details of how the data is eventually stored or retrieved to and from the data store. This data store can be a database, an xml file, etc.

Knowing the architecture for ASP.NET Core 2.1 Web API solutions may help broaden your understanding. The solution and all code from this article’s examples can be found in my GitHub repository.