ASP.NET Core Developer Roadmap

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Roadmap to becoming an ASP.NET Core developer in 2023:

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. 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, etc.)
   • What is TLS?
   • What is SSL?
   • Don't be afraid of using Google, Power Searching with Google
   • Start using ChatGPT
   • Read a few books about algorithms and data structures

2. C#

   • C#
   • .NET 7
   • Learn dotnet CLI

3. SQL Fundamentals

   • Pluralsight Learning Path: Querying Data with T-SQL from SQL Server

4. ASP.NET Core Basics

   • MVC
   • REST
   • Application Settings & Configurations
   • Middlewares
   • Filters & Attributes
   • Authentication
   • Authorization
   • IdentityServer
   • OpenIddict
   • Auth0
   • OIDC
   • Razor Pages
   • Razor Components
   • Tutorials
     • Pluralsight Learning Path: ASP.NET Core 6
     • Pluralsight Learning Path: ASP.NET Core 6 Web API

5. SOLID

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

6. ORM

   • Entity Framework Core
     • Tutorials
       • Pluralsight Learning Path: EF Core 6
   • Dapper
   • RepoDB

7. Dependency Injection

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

8. Databases

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

9. Caching

   • Memory Cache
   • Distributed Cache
     1. Redis
        1. StackExchange.Redis
        2. EasyCaching
     2. Memcached
   • Application-Level
     • Response Caching
       1. Built in
       2. Marvin.Cache.Headers
     • Output Caching
     • Entity Framework 2nd Level Cache

10. Log Frameworks

    • Serilog
    • NLog

11. API Clients & Communications

    1. REST
       • Sieve
       • OData
       • REPR Pattern
         • Minimal APIs
         • Fast Endpoints
         • Ardalis.Endpoints
    2. gRPC
    3. GraphQL
       • HotChocolate
       • GraphQL-dotnet

12. Real-Time Communication

    • SignalR
    • WebSockets

13. Object Mapping

    • AutoMapper
    • Mapster
    • ExpressMapper
    • AgileMapper

14. Background Task Scheduler

    • Native BackgroundService
    • HangFire
    • Quartz
    • Coravel

15. Testing

    1. Unit Testing
       • Frameworks
         • xUnit
         • NUnit
         • MSTest
       • Mocking
         • Moq
         • NSubstitute
         • FakeItEasy
       • Assertion
         • FluentAssertion
         • Shouldly
       • Fake Data Generators
         • Bogus
         • AutoFixture
         • GenFu
    2. Integration Testing
       • WebApplicationFactory
       • TestServer
       • Respwan
       • Test Containers
    3. Snapshot Testing
       • Verify
    4. Behavior Testing
       • SpecFlow
       • BDDfy
       • LightBDD
    5. E2E Testing
       • Selenium
       • Puppeteer-Sharp
    6. Performance Testing
       • K6
       • JMeter
       • Crank
       • Bombardier

16. Microservices

    1. Message-Brokers
       • RabbitMQ
       • Apache Kafka
       • ActiveMQ
       • Azure Service Bus
       • NetMQ
    2. Message-Bus
       • MassTransit
       • NServiceBus
       • EasyNetQ
       • CAP
    3. API Gateway
       • Ocelot
       • YARP
    4. Containerization
       • Docker
    5. Orcherstration
       • Kubernetes
         • Rancher
         • Kubectl
         • K9s
       • Docker Swarm
    6. Other
       • Orleans
       • Proto.Actor
       • Steeltoe
       • Dapr
       • Tye

17. Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery

    • GitHub Actions
    • Gitlab CI
    • Azure Pipelines
    • Travis CI
    • Jenkins
    • Circle CI
    • TeamCity

18. Design Patterns

    • Categories
      • Creational
      • Structural
      • Behavioral
    • Tutorials
      • Pluralsight Learning Path: Design Patterns in C#

19. Monitoring/Logging/Tracing/Alerting

    • Monitoring
      • On-Premises
        • Prometheus
        • Grafana
      • Cloud
        • Datadog
    • Logging
      • On-Premises
        • ELK Stack
        • Seq
        • Sentry.io
      • Cloud
        • Datadog
        • Sentry.io
    • Tracing
      • On-Premises
        • OpenTelemetry
          • Jaeger
          • Zipkin
          • Sentry.io
      • Cloud
        • Datadog
        • Sentry.io
    • Alerting
      • On-Premises
        • Zabbix
        • Alertmanager
      • Cloud
        • Datadog

20. Client-Side .NET

    • Template Engines
      • Razor
      • DotLiquid
      • Scriban
      • Fluid
    • Frameworks
      • Blazor
      • .NET MAUI

21. Good to Know

    • MediatR
    • Fluent Validation
    • Polly
    • Benchmark.NET
    • NodaTime
    • Swashbuckle
    • Nuke
    • EF Core Bulk Extensions
    • Distributed Lock

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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