Intro to Refit REST API Client for C#

Calling an API can be a pain. You have to use the HTTPClient correctly, you need to handle the return types, deserialize the data, and more. Or at least, you used to have to do all of that. Not anymore if you use Refit. Refit is an automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET. In this video, we are going to set up an API and then call it from Blazor WebAssembly using Refit. You will be amazed at how easy it is to talk to an API.

[Kyogunaik]

Refit is an awesome tool to have in my toolbox.. thank you for the awesome introductory video 😇

[mogalemcbridemokgothu]

This what I been looking for 🔥🔥 You rock Tim!!!

[milos]

Much quicker and easier solution than managing the http client on your own. Don't even want to mention unit testing. Great stuff!

[raminguliyev]

Awesome video, thank you. I have never heard about refit btw

[TheJessejunior]

you are sooo good in explaiinning things!!!

[steviepca]

Great intro to Refit and thanks for the explanation with @onclick="@(e => AddGuest(item))" @35:30 mark

[NAELSLR]

Absolutely interesting and helpful tools. Thanks a lot for sharing !

[ppv]

While Refit reduces the amount of boilerplate code you have to write when integrating with an API to a minimum, and is nice to use for smaller APIs, I think it is more useful to use code generation for the client side, based on OpenAPI/Swagger doc (either from VS or other options like NSwag Studio). That is also very helpful in updating the code when the API is updated, and there is less room for error on the client side.

[joeprincipato]

Great unique video, . I scoured the internet to find an example of creating a web api, using another project in your solution to call the api, but most of all there was no database, just creating lists to use in the Api..

[ultroai]

Excellent tool. Thanks you for another great video. Will use this in my projects.

[digitaldaridesatv]

Thank you Tim!
This video tutorial help a lot make services simple

[jesusdelarua]

Great course!!!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

[coding_ideas]

Thank you for this tutorial <3, you are my favourite tutor here on youtube.

[PatricSjoeoe]

Your issue with duplicated id was caused by your count + 1. But if you had used .Max(x => x.Id) + 1 it works :) It's easy to make mistakes in recordings :)

Great videos as usual! :)

[NavySturmGewehr]

I'm currently watching one of your other videos on APIs and then I'll do this one! Thank you so much Tim! I've managed to connect to the server and provide my authentication but I'm not quite to getting useful information out of it yet.

[mmurillo]

This is awesome. Reminds me a bit of the integration wizard for Web Services that comes with VS by default. Thanks for sharing!

[aande]

Thanks for the tutorial. It will be very interesting to see one about progressive web apps

[MarioStaats]

As always :-) great Video. Great work *ThumbsUp

[bytechanneltv]

Hi Tim! Thanks a lot. I`ve only one question: "How should I design the interface if the rest service sends an IActionResult back to caller instead of the awaited object?" Normally on an api call an IActionResult will be send back like Ok(...) or NotFound. THX. Jürgen

[lcmarcosr]

Hi Tim, How can I set The Content-Type to application/json in Refit