This video covers testing web APIs locally using .http files and VS Code’s REST Client Extension. Safia will valid the implementation of the web API that she built for managing items in a Todo list.

For an explanation of ASP.NET Core and .NET, check out the first video in this series: https://youtu.be/OmUuR4GiwIE

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro

00:29 - Verify everything in the application server works

01:16 - Verify that handler for POST requests works correctly

03:45 - Test handler to resolve items by ID

04:36 - Test DELETE

05:23 - Outro

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VS Code REST Client Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client

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