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.

We won’t be using any of those features here. Click Create. We’ll use this ASP.NET Core Web API project to measure API performance with MethodTimer.Fody in the sections below.

You can use any backend technology of your choice to create the API, such as .NET Core or Node.js. Once you have created the API, you can use HttpClient in Blazor to send requests to the API and ...

Application programming interfaces are not the panacea for digital transformation and could even lead to escalating costs for problems that are better addressed through integration.