ASP.NET Core 10 Web API CRUD with EF Core

A comprehensive step-by-step guide to building a CRUD Web API with .NET 10, EF Core 10, and PostgreSQL. Covers project setup with Minimal APIs, Domain-Driven Design patterns using EntityBase and factory methods, IEntityTypeConfiguration for clean Fluent API mappings, Docker Compose for PostgreSQL 17, code-first migrations, data seeding, DTOs, and a service layer. Includes benchmarks showing AsNoTracking() is 2.9x–5.2x faster on read queries, a decision matrix for choosing between EF Core stacks, and a comparison of Minimal APIs vs Controllers. Also highlights EF Core 10's new named query filters feature.

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May 31•50m read time•From codewithmukesh.com

Table of contents

ASP.NET Core 10 Web API CRUD with EF Core - Full Tutorial What I’ll Build in This Tutorial Who is this Guide for?PreRequisites Project Setup When to Use This Stack: My Decision Matrix Configuring OpenAPI and Scalar UI Swagger is Dead? Here's the Alternative!Adding the Base Class - Domain Driven Design Adding the Movie Entity - Domain Driven Design What is Entity Framework Core?How to Add Entity Framework Core to ASP.NET Core Project Adding DBContext IEntityTypeConfiguration: Why?Seeding Initial Data in EF Core 10 Named Query Filters - New in EF Core 10 Global Query Filters in EF Core 10 Running PostgreSQL on Docker Container Connection String Configuration Registering the DbContext Seeding Data Adding the DTOs - ViewModels Interview Questions PDF The IMovieService Interface CRUD Operations - MovieService Implementation Benchmark: AsNoTracking vs Tracking on the Movies List Endpoint Tracking vs No-Tracking Queries in EF Core Minimal API Endpoints Testing the API with Scalar Next Steps Common Issues & Troubleshooting Key Takeaways Frequently Asked Questions A Real Production Story: The Bug That Cost Me a Weekend My Take: What I’d Do Differently in Production What’s Next in the Course Configuring Entities with Fluent API in EF Core EF Core Relationships - One-to-One, One-to-Many, Many-to-Many Running Migrations in EF Core 10 Global Exception Handling in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core Environment-based Configuration in ASP.NET Core Structured Logging with Serilog Pagination, Sorting & Searching in ASP.NET Core Tracking vs No-Tracking Queries in EF Core Optimistic Concurrency in EF Core 10 Cleaning EF Core Migrations Summary

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