Getting started with Minimal web API using ASP.NET Core for .NET 6.0 (LTS)

The traditional way of implementing RESTful APIs in .NET WebAPI involve using controllers, a whole lot of bloated dependencies, un-necessarily large list of files and a humongous code base just to implement a simple endpoint with a plain text response.

The performance of ASP.NET Core WebAPI is blazing fast. As per the techempower  benchmarks, ASP.NET Core stood next to pico.v  in terms of Plaintext responses .

If you are looking to build a high-performance web application for next billion users, ASP.NET Core for .NET 6 is the go-to web framework of your choice.