ASP.NET Core Developer Roadmap

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Roadmap to becoming an ASP.NET Core developer in 2021:

Below you can find a chart demonstrating the paths that you can take and the libraries that you would want to learn to become an ASP.NET Core developer. I made this chart as a tip for everyone who asks me, "What should I learn next as an ASP.NET Core developer?"

Disclaimer

The purpose of this roadmap is to give you an idea about the landscape. The road map will guide you if you are confused about what to learn next, rather than encouraging you to pick what is hip and trendy. You should grow some understanding of why one tool would be better suited for some cases than the other and remember hip and trendy does not always mean best suited for the job

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Roadmap

Resources

1. Learn the prerequisites

   • C#
   • .NET 5
   • Entity Framework
   • Dapper
   • NHibernate
   • ASP.NET Core
   • SQL Fundamentals

2. General Development Skills

   • Learn GIT, create a few repositories on GitHub, share your code with other people
   • Know HTTP(S) protocol, request methods (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, OPTIONS)
   • Don't be afraid of using Google, Power Searching with Google
   • Learn dotnet CLI
   • Read a few books about algorithms and data structures

3. ASP.NET Core Basics

   • MVC
   • REST
   • Razor Pages
   • Razor Components
   • Middlewares
   • Filters & Attributes
   • Application Settings & Configurations
   • Authentication
   • Authorization

4. SOLID

   • Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
   • Open-Closed Principle (OCP)
   • Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
   • Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)
   • Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)

5. Dependency Injection

   1. DI Containers
      • Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection
      • AutoFac
      • Ninject
      • Castle Windsor
      • Simple Injector
   2. Life Cycles
   3. Scrutor

6. Databases

   1. Relational
      1. SQL Server
      2. PostgreSQL
      3. MariaDB
      4. MySQL
   2. Cloud Databases
      • CosmosDB
      • DynamoDB
   3. Search Engines
      • ElasticSearch
      • Solr
      • Sphinx
   4. NoSQL
      • Redis
      • MongoDB
      • Apache Cassandra
      • LiteDB
      • RavenDB
      • CouchDB

7. Caching

   1. Memory Cache
   2. Distributed Cache
      1. Redis
         1. StackExchange.Redis
         2. EasyCaching
      2. Memcached
   3. Entity Framework 2nd Level Cache
      1. EFCoreSecondLevelCacheInterceptor
      2. EntityFrameworkCore.Cacheable

8. Logging

   1. Log Frameworks
      • Serilog
      • NLog
   2. Log Management System
      • ELK Stack
      • Sentry.io
      • Loggly.com
      • Elmah.io

9. API Clients & Communications

   1. REST
      • OData
      • Sieve
   2. gRPC
   3. GraphQL
      • HotChocolate
      • GraphQL-dotnet

10. Real-Time Communication

• SignalR
• WebSockets

11. Object Mapping

• AutoMapper
• Mapster
• ExpressMapper
• AgileMapper

12. Task Scheduling

    • Coravel
    • HangFire
    • Background Service
    • Fluent Scheduler

13. Testing

    1. Unit Testing
       1. Frameworks
          • xUnit
          • NUnit
          • MSTest
       2. Mocking
          • Moq
          • NSubstitute
          • FakeItEasy
       3. Assertion
          • FluentAssertion
          • Shouldly
    2. Integration Testing
       • WebApplicationFactory
       • TestServer
    3. Behavior Testing
       • SpecFlow
       • BDDfy
       • LightBDD
    4. E2E Testing
       • Selenium
       • Puppeteer-Sharp

14. Micro-Services

    1. Message-Broker
       • RabbitMQ
       • Apache Kafka
       • ActiveMQ
       • Azure Service Bus
       • NetMQ
    2. Message-Bus
       • MassTransit
       • NServiceBus
       • EasyNetQ
       • CAP
    3. API Gateway
       • Ocelot
    4. Containerization
       • Docker
    5. Orcherstration
       • Kubernetes
       • Docker Swarm
    6. Reverse Proxy
       • YARP
    7. Other
       • Orleans
       • Steeltoe
       • Dapr
       • Tye

15. Continuous Integration & Delivery

    • Github Actions
    • Azure Pipelines
    • Travis CI
    • Jenkins
    • Circle CI
    • TeamCity

16. Design-Patterns

    • CQRS
    • Decorator
    • Strategy
    • Builder
    • Singleton
    • Facade

17. Client-Side Libraries

    • Blazor

18. Template Engines

• Razor
• DotLiquid
• Scriban
• Fluid

19. Good to Know

    • MediatR
    • Fluent Validation
    • Polly
    • Benchmark.NET
    • NodaTime
    • GenFu
    • Swashbuckle

Wrap Up

If you think the roadmap can be improved, please do open a PR with any updates and submit any issues. Also, I will continue to improve this, so you might want to star this repository to revisit.

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