ASP.NET MVC websites
ASP.NET MVC websites built on .NET Core 6+. MVC — Model, View, Controller — is a design pattern
that separates an application into three distinct responsibilities, making it easier to build,
test, and maintain complex websites and web applications.
Why MVC?
The separation of concerns at the heart of MVC means that business logic, data access, and
presentation are kept apart. This makes the codebase easier to reason about, easier to test
in isolation, and easier to change over time without unintended side effects.
- Model — represents the data and business rules
- View — the Razor UI layer that renders HTML to the browser
- Controller — handles incoming requests, coordinates the Model and View
Key benefits
- Clean, testable code — well suited to Test Driven Development (TDD)
- SEO-friendly URL routing
- Full support for asynchronous programming
- Faster development using scaffolding and conventions
- Large ecosystem of libraries and tooling on .NET Core 6+
APIs are built on the same foundation
ASP.NET Core Web APIs share the same underlying pipeline as MVC. Controllers, routing,
model binding, validation, and middleware all work the same way whether you are returning
an HTML view or a JSON response. This means a team that knows MVC can build REST APIs
without learning a separate framework — and the same application can serve both a web
front-end and an API from a single codebase.