API Development & Integration
Hi, I'm beginner .NET developer with 1 year of experience, I have to learn API Development and Integration whats the best platform for it. And How I can practice this to get strong grip on it.
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What do you mean by "development and integration" and "platform"?
Developing your own API is usually done in ASP.NET Core
Either with controllers, minimal APIs, or something 3rd party like Immediate.Apis
Integration... I assume integrating 3rd party APIs? If so, then
HttpClient is mostly all you need. Most likely used either with HttpClientFactory or with typed clientsI'm asking this because it's now my top priority. I recently got my first client, but the project was a 3rd-party API integration with Uber Eats. The goal was to make new orders from Uber Eats appear automatically in the restaurant's website admin panel.
I had to pass on the project because I didn't have experience with API integration. That's why I am so motivated to get a strong grip on this skill now.
You still need to answer the question.
There is no best platform to be honest every API you will consume will work different in some way.
i.e.: endpoint, results, formats, etc just pray you dont need to work with ancient API that have really bad format and weird structures.
The important on consuming API is knowing how http works, being able to utilize tools like postman or browser's dev tools, and how well documented the API's you're consuming are i.e.: in your example Uber Eats for instance.
Understand the protocol HTTP and how to investigate and construct the various elements(POST, GET, HEAD, etc) of it will help you debug certain scenarios.
Postman is a helpful tool where u can try requests without having to write any code for various reasons.
In C# in order to consume APIs you will be using httpclient as pointed out by Z, and more often than not you will want to use the httpclientfactory.
and creating your own API has its own set of complexity, for example authentication, tokens, rate limits if u need them, etc...
so there is a lot of information that would be needed to be covered in both side of the coins.
and for writing your own, c# offers asp.net core which was already pointed by Z.