ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server.

In the next sections, we’ll implement a simple web API in ASP.NET Core. After we create our API, we’ll implement a Refit client to consume it.

Create an ASP.Net Core Web API project in Visual Studio 2017 In this section we will create our ASP.Net Core Web API application. This will be a REST-based web API.