FastEndpoints vs StructuredMinimalApi

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FastEndpoints		StructuredMinimalApi
	Project
15	Mentions	2
3,904	Stars	99
6.4%	Growth	-
9.7	Activity	7.4
4 days ago	Latest Commit	10 days ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

FastEndpoints

Posts with mentions or reviews of FastEndpoints. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

Choosing Between Controllers and Minimal API for .NET APIs
1 project | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023

Bonus Time! In addition to the Microsoft-supported methods above, many community frameworks exist for building APIs with .NET. FastEndpoints is an option I found recently that seems very promising. With performance benchmarks that put them on par with Minimal API, they are firmly ahead of Controller-based APIs.
How do you structure large Minimal API Projects?
8 projects | /r/dotnet | 7 Dec 2023

Have you had a look at FastEndpoints yet? Any thoughts?
Microsoft launches new app store for Windows – from React to Shoelace, Lit, Vite
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Oct 2023

And yet, all Microsoft's demos for the upcoming changes for Blazor in .NET 8 (like SSR) has been a public facing recipe site (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD2-DwuOfKM). I'd say this is a very similar use case as the Microsoft Store.
I love .NET and ASP.NET Core, but I use it purely for backend. And even there, I use 3rd party libraries like Fast Endpoints (https://fast-endpoints.com/). Microsoft keeps bringing in new technologies and effectively abandoning the ones that fall out of favour (look at the progression from MVC -> Razor Pages -> Blazor). I do not blame the Microsoft Store team for not trusting the .NET team to not simply abandon Blazor as well somewhere down the line and instead opt for other technologies for the front-end.
Idea validation | low-code API factory
1 project | /r/SaaS | 16 Sep 2023

I also find a very similar framework in .NET "Fast Endpoints"
Easiest way to build the fastest REST API in C# and .NET 7 using CQRS
4 projects | dev.to | 25 Apr 2023

I gave it a go and I was impressed how easy and fast it was to set it all up. Since I'm not a big fan of REPR pattern almost all my projects are using CQRS pattern with a help of MediatR ](https://github.com/jbogard/MediatR) I immediately started going over something similar that Fast Endpoints offer which is a command bus.
Should I utilize C#/.NET Core, or go with Typescript for a React front end?
1 project | /r/dotnet | 5 Apr 2023
Which 'part' of dotnet should I learn for backend web dev?
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 24 Dec 2022

Ive personally been using FastEndpoints which is a community built thing on top of minimal apis - https://fast-endpoints.com/
Reprise - a micro-framework that brings the REPR pattern into Minimal APIs
2 projects | /r/csharp | 19 Dec 2022

3 projects | /r/dotnet | 12 Dec 2022

I've just started to use a similar thing, and it's so much better than controllers - https://fast-endpoints.com/
Easiest/Standard way to implement a simple HTTP REST API?
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 29 Oct 2022

Sort of minimal but check out FastEndpoint. https://fast-endpoints.com/

StructuredMinimalApi

Posts with mentions or reviews of StructuredMinimalApi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

How do you structure large Minimal API Projects?
8 projects | /r/dotnet | 7 Dec 2023

You can see the branch here https://github.com/jonathanjameswilliams26/StructuredMinimalApi/tree/test/controllers-vs-minimal-apis

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FastEndpoints and StructuredMinimalApi you can also consider the following projects:

ApiEndpoints - A project for supporting API Endpoints in ASP.NET Core web applications.

Carter - Carter is framework that is a thin layer of extension methods and functionality over ASP.NET Core allowing code to be more explicit and most importantly more enjoyable.

Refit - The automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET. Heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, Refit turns your REST API into a live interface.

SqlClient - Microsoft.Data.SqlClient provides database connectivity to SQL Server for .NET applications.

RestSharp - Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET

NetCoreServer - Ultra fast and low latency asynchronous socket server & client C# .NET Core library with support TCP, SSL, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket protocols and 10K connections problem solution

Flurl.Http - Fluent URL builder and testable HTTP client for .NET

MediatR - Simple, unambitious mediator implementation in .NET

awesome-software-architecture - A curated list of awesome articles, videos, and other resources to learn and practice about software architecture, patterns, and principles.

Http.fs - A simple, functional HTTP client library for F#

Reprise - A micro-framework that brings the REPR pattern into ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs.

ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.