Category: Mastering .NET Web APIs

What we’re doing today (and why) Yesterday (Day 1) we stood up two endpoints: Today we’ll refactor the project so those endpoints (and every new one we add) remain clean, readable, testable, and easy to evolve. No new business features yet — we’re investing in structure. Senior teams do this early to avoid “giant Program.cs”

What we will build today (and why) Today we lay the cornerstone of the entire book: two REST endpoints for our Task resource. This sounds simple, but it’s where many APIs drift from REST and become hard to evolve. We’ll keep endpoints predictable, stateless, and correctly modeled so everything we add later (EF Core, JWT,