Self Hosting. You can host a Web API as separate process than ASP.NET. It means you can host a Web API in console application or windows service or OWIN or any other process that is managed by . NET framework.
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Complicated as it may sound, creating a basic API service is actually quite easy . Snippet below defines an API service using Python and Flask that allows everyone to retrieve a predefined list of users: If you are merely prototyping, such a basic API service would suffice.
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