Creating an ASP.NET Core Web API Project

We are going to create the ASP.NET Core and React projects separately in this part. Earlier, we saw that old versions of React and create-react-app were used. Creating the React project separately allows us to use a more recent version of React and create-react-app. Creating the React project separately also allows us to use TypeScript with React, which will help us be more productive as the code base grows.

Steps to create an ASP.NET Core web API project

In this lesson, we will create our ASP.NET Core backend in Visual Studio. Let’s open Visual Studio and carry out the following steps: