Today I have released a new version of Strathweb.TypedRouting.AspNetCore. This new version is built as .NET Standard 2.0, and - obviously - finally supports ASP.NET Core MVC 2.
Here is a short summary and some links to help you get started.
Background π
As I’ve already blogged here and here, so if you are interested in a more detailed explanation, I recommend checking out these articles. However, in short, Strathweb.TypedRouting.AspNetCore allows you to configure routes in your ASP.NET Core MVC applications using centralized, strongly-typed manner. This is in stark contrast to the two built in approaches of the framework: routing via attributes, or centralized routing without strong typing.
TypedRouting existed for ASP.NET Web API and was then migrated to ASP.NET Core MVC.
TypedRouting in ASP.NET Core MVC 2 π
Fundamentally, the ASP.NET Core MVC 2 version works the same way as the previous one, however, it contains a simplified and cleaner configuration/surface API. It is now only available on IMvcBuilder/IMvcCoreBuilder extension, and is decoupled from MvcOptions.
In your Startup class, after adding MVC, simply call AddTypedRouting(). The routes are configured using an options delegate. An example is shown below:
services.AddMvc().AddTypedRouting(opt =>
{
opt.Get("homepage", c => c.Action<HomeController>(x => x.Index()));
opt.Get("aboutpage/{name}", c => c.Action<HomeController>(x => x.About(Param<string>.Any)));
opt.Post("sendcontact", c => c.Action<HomeController>(x => x.Contact()));
});
In addition to that, several painful bugs have been fixed - the main one is that the library now supports integration testing using the TestHost infrastructure, as it no longer persists static state.
I encourage you to give the library a try, it can be installed from Nuget, using the Nuget client:
nuget install Strathweb.TypedRouting.AspNetCore
or via the .NET Core CLI:
dotnet add package Strathweb.TypedRouting.AspNetCore
In case you have any issues, or would like to help out, please visit the Github repo.
