Refit VS practical-aspnetcore

A lot of people have given you good replies, but have you looked at Refit?

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?

Define a Refit client interface with the following for each API endpoint, e.g. GET /foo:

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.

Refit - simple, typed REST clients: https://github.com/reactiveui/refit

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.

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

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.

The controller is simple and use the Refit library to abstract the PokéAPI call and then, returns the data.

To be fair, Refit is pretty great.

Peruse samples here https://github.com/dodyg/practical-aspnetcore

Check out this repo - https://github.com/dodyg/practical-aspnetcore/tree/net6.0/projects/security/authentication-with-identity

For example, @nitaro (idk the username) shared this GitHub project in one of the past posts that I thought would be a great place to start: https://github.com/dodyg/practical-aspnetcore/tree/net6.0/exercises/pathway-1. I usually work on projects on my own but it’s so much more helpful just having others who are doing the same thing at the same time to bounce ideas off of and get support from!

Check also the samples at https://github.com/dodyg/practical-aspnetcore. It's all tiny samples that you can try out to see some functionalities.

and I maintain a pretty popular open source project https://github.com/dodyg/practical-aspnetcore