Re:Making life easier for newcomers to the .NET ecosystem
by bob1029 on Monday November 15, 2021 @11:02AM
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A lot of the asp.net core configuration nonsense can be entirely sidestepped, but the way in which you would do this is not published as a headline article or otherwise made clear to the developer.
I suspect Microsoft wants most developers to throw their hands up and just follow the "hook your app up to our $$$ azure authentication products $$$" tutorial.
The happy path for AspNetCore could be achieved if Microsoft started the entire conversation with "Here's a request pipeline and here's how you add middleware to it". Everything else is some form of abstraction on top of that. You can learn about how to do all of this 1 afternoon if you know what to focus on.
Once you figure out how to get at HttpContext with your services available in that scope, you have the rabbit entirely cornered. Relying on Micrsoft's middleware to do everything for you is how you get trapped in their puzzle box for all eternity.
I suspect Microsoft wants most developers to throw their hands up and just follow the "hook your app up to our $$$ azure authentication products $$$" tutorial.
The happy path for AspNetCore could be achieved if Microsoft started the entire conversation with "Here's a request pipeline and here's how you add middleware to it". Everything else is some form of abstraction on top of that. You can learn about how to do all of this 1 afternoon if you know what to focus on.
Once you figure out how to get at HttpContext with your services available in that scope, you have the rabbit entirely cornered. Relying on Micrsoft's middleware to do everything for you is how you get trapped in their puzzle box for all eternity.