These minimal API projects make it easy to get our application up and running fast, by writing less boilerplate code. ASP.NET Core 7 further improved minimal APIs by adding support for filters.

Version 24 version introduces several new language features which collectively simplify code, and provide powerful tools for bytecode manipulation and advanced stream processing.

Traditional controllers (i.e., MVC and API controllers in ASP.NET Core) are feature-rich, but they require writing a lot of boilerplate code and they don’t match minimal APIs in performance.