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. (by reactiveui)
FastEndpoints
A light-weight REST API development framework for ASP.Net 6 and newer. [Moved to: https://github.com/FastEndpoints/Library] (by dj-nitehawk)
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MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
Refit
Posts with mentions or reviews of Refit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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Exception Handling in C# Methods returning object
A lot of people have given you good replies, but have you looked at Refit?
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Http calls on mobile, what is the preferred way / best practice
Another question that rises is, would it be better to use some HttpClient package to handle the requests, like Refit in combination with Polly. But then again, it seems Refit also uses the HttpClient factory, which was a bad thing according to the previous?
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Refactor your dotNET HTTP Clients to Typed HTTP Clients
Define a Refit client interface with the following for each API endpoint, e.g. GET /foo:
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HttpClient best approach
Use RestEase to create your own client library. Refit is a very similar and more popular library. IMO RestEase is an improvement over Refit and I prefer it, but either will solve your problems. Both are libs that have you build interfaces describing the API endpoints, then the library handles all the boilerplate code that calls HttpClient.
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What your hidden nuget gems ?
Refit - simple, typed REST clients: https://github.com/reactiveui/refit
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how to structure code for rest api calls
I'd advise using this https://github.com/reactiveui/refit tool for HTTP requests. It saves a lot of time for serialization, deserialization and exception handling.
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Roadmap for transition from Java
Use Refit, and let manage the live of HttpClient. Also, Refit will give you a strongly typed client around an API. All you have to write is the interface. Ain't that neat ? If you can't, use the HttpClientFactory to create the HttpClient instance: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/microservices/implement-resilient-applications/use-httpclientfactory-to-implement-resilient-http-requests
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ASP.NET Core - how to properly make a GET request?
Use RestEase to create your own client library. Refit is a very similar and more popular library. IMO RestEase is an improvement over Refit and I prefer it, but either will solve your problems. Both are libs that have you build interfaces describing the API endpoints, then the library handles all the boilerplate code that calls HttpClient.
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Integration tests without API dependencies with ASP.NET Core and WireMock.Net
The controller is simple and use the Refit library to abstract the PokéAPI call and then, returns the data.
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I love refit
To be fair, Refit is pretty great.
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 2022-08-24.
- FastEndpoints has reached v5.0 after 1 year of development [107k downloads / 1.9k gh stars / 1.1k commits]
- FastEndpoints – API Framework for Asp.net Using the REPR Pattern
- FastEndpoints template
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is injecting a iserviceprovider instance considered a anti-pattern
In a recent podcast episode I recorded with Nick Chapsas, we discussed both Minimal API and Mediatr (due to be published on the 1st April). He mentioned a library I hadn't heard of before called Fast Endpoints, which is yet another option. So many different ways to skin a cat. I haven't used Carter, but did use Nancy back in the day.
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6 .NET Myths Dispelled — Celebrating 21 Years of .NET
There's also Fast Endpoints as another way of doing a similar concept (This has API design issues imo, but the concept is solid). It ends up being similar to how a lot of people use MediatR, it's just instead of using controllers you use MapXXX to call MediatR. This just allows people to cut out the MVC overhead.
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We Need to Have a Talk About MediatR
i believe i've built such a thing. or at least something close to that ;-)
- FastEndpoints v3.0 released with easy api versioning support!
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FastEndpoints alternatives - ApiEndpoints and Carter
3 projects | 20 Jan 2022
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Awesome Software Architecture: A curated list of useful resources about software architecture and design principles.
awesome! page looks a bit empty. maybe my rest api framework belongs there too as it's an implementation of REPR pattern https://github.com/dj-nitehawk/FastEndpoints
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Is minimal api the way to go now?
that's why integration/functional testing with WebApplicationFactory is the way to go.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Refit and FastEndpoints you can also consider the following projects:
RestSharp - Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET
ApiEndpoints - A project for supporting API Endpoints in ASP.NET Core web applications.
Flurl.Http - Fluent URL builder and testable HTTP client for .NET
RestEase - Easy-to-use typesafe REST API client library for .NET Standard 1.1 and .NET Framework 4.5 and higher, which is simple and customisable. Inspired by Refit
Ocelot - .NET API Gateway
NSwag - The Swagger/OpenAPI toolchain for .NET, ASP.NET Core and TypeScript.
Simple.OData.Client
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.