ApiStarterKit.Free.Template 1.0.0

📦 ApiStarterKit.Free.Template (v1.0.0)

🚀 ASP.NET Core API Starter Kit (Free Edition) — built on .NET 9 using Clean Architecture. A ready-to-use, production-grade template to help developers kickstart their next API or SaaS backend in minutes — without reinventing the wheel.

✅ Features

.NET 9 + Clean Architecture

JWT Authentication + Role-based Authorization

PostgreSQL with EF Core + Initial Migrations

Data Seeding via DataSeeder.cs

CRUD (Users ↔ Products) + API Versioning

Swagger UI / Serilog Logging / Rate Limiting

Docker-Ready + Health Checks

xUnit Unit Tests + Integration Tests

Postman Collection included

🛠 Installation dotnet new install ApiStarterKit.Free.Template::1.0.0

Then scaffold your API project instantly:

dotnet new apistarterkit-free -n YourApi

ApiStarterKit.Free/ ├── src/ │ ├── Api/ # ASP.NET Core Web API (.NET 9) │ │ ├── Controllers/ │ │ ├── Middleware/ │ │ ├── Extensions/ │ │ └── Program.cs │ ├── Application/ # Business logic, DTOs, Interfaces │ ├── Domain/ # Entities, Enums, Validation logic │ ├── Infrastructure/ │ │ ├── Persistence/ │ │ │ ├── AppDbContext.cs │ │ │ └── DataSeeder.cs # Data seeding logic │ │ └── Services/ │ └── Shared/ # Wrappers, Constants, Utils ├── tests/ │ ├── UnitTests/ # Unit tests (xUnit, Moq) │ └── IntegrationTests/ # API tests (TestServer) │ └── Setup/ │ └── CustomWebApplicationFactory.cs ├── postman/ │ └── ApiStarterKit.postman_collection.json ├── templates/ # dotnet new template files (optional) ├── docker-compose.yml ├── README.md └── .gitignore

Made by 💙 Basheer Mohammed (Basheer Abdo Farea Mohammed) (basheer2013.55@gmail.com)

🧱 Technologies Used

ASP.NET Core 9

Entity Framework Core (PostgreSQL)

FluentValidation

Serilog

xUnit

Docker

Swagger (OpenAPI)

📄 License

This free edition is open-source under the MIT License. For a more advanced commercial version, visit ApiStarterKit.Pro (coming soon).

🌐 Links

NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/ApiStarterKit.Free.Template

GitHub: https://lnkd.in/dYQWR9WR

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