Summary
In this chapter, you learned about the role of minimal APIs in modern application development, and you should now have a good general understanding of their advantages.
You learned how minimal APIs differ from controller-based APIs in .NET, and gained an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of these two formats.
You installed the basic required libraries and tools to get started on your journey and learned how to create a new project in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code.
The key takeaway from this chapter is that minimal APIs promote simplicity, high performance, and maintainability.
In the next chapter, we will start writing our first Minimal API endpoints, which will be able to handle various HTTP methods on different routes. We will minimal build responses to send back to clients and make calls to our API.
