Add a section that shows how concepts in other frameworks apply using minimal APIs

[davidfowl]

What would you like see:

• Documentation
• Sample
• Tutorial

What kind of content are you looking for ?

We should have a section on the site that lists a couple of top level concepts in various frameworks (routing, middleware, logging, dependency injection (where applicable)), as a way to quickly get somebody that is already using an existing framework up to speed with similar concepts in minimal.

For example:

Express

Routes

// GET method route
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  res.send('GET request to the homepage')
})

// POST method route
app.post('/', function (req, res) {
  res.send('POST request to the homepage')
})

app.MapGet("/", () => "GET request to the homepage");
app.MapPost("/", () => "POST request to the homepage");

Route parameters

app.get('/users/:userId/books/:bookId', function (req, res) {
  res.send(req.params)
})

app.MapGet("/users/{userId}/books/{bookId}", (int userId, int bookId) => { 
   return new { userId, bookId };
});

Middleware

var express = require('express')
var app = express()

app.use(function (req, res, next) {
  console.log('Time:', Date.now())
  next()
})

var app = WebApplication.Create(args);

app.Use((context, next) => 
{
    Console.WriteLine($"Time: {DateTime.Now}");
    return next(context);
});

StaticFiles

var express = require('express')
var app = express()

app.use(express.static('public', options))

var app = WebApplication.Create(args);
app.UseStaticFiles();

[LadyNaggaga]

Isn't this already covered in the current quick start https://minimal-apis.github.io/quickstart/quickstart.html

[davidfowl]

There's no plan to cover other frameworks in that set. This is about having a "if you know framework X" here's how you do it in minimal comparison

[LadyNaggaga]

What about something like this on the homepage under features? I don't know if we should do entire section. TBH I don't know where this would be go in the page flow

[LadyNaggaga]

Maybe I could add an about page ...

[davidfowl]

I think it should be a different page. One per framework. One for express and one for flask, and maybe a golang framework.

[LadyNaggaga]

😑 I am not sure about this. But we could add a section under the quick starts. But it may get lost. Right now this what we have
Top menus

• Quick starts

  • App Overview by @glennc

    

  • Then we will have quick guides on the following topics

• Tutorials
• Samples
• MS Docs

[davidfowl]

Example https://hapi.dev/tutorials/expresstohapi/?lang=en_US