ASP.NET Core Developer Roadmap
ASP.NET Core roadmap with a maintained visual path and multilingual documentation.
ASP.NET Core Developer Roadmap
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- Read-me in Japanese
- Read-me in Russian
Roadmap to becoming an ASP.NET Core developer in 2026:
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
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
- Read a few books about algorithms and data structures
- AI / LLMs
- LLMs
- IDE / Tools
- Cursor
- Modes
- Agent
- Plan
- Ask
- MCPs
- Modes
- Claude Code
- Lovable
- Cursor
- Libraries
C#
SQL Fundamentals
ASP.NET Core Basics
SOLID
ORM
Dependency Injection
- DI Containers
- Scrutor
- Tutorials 📚
Databases
- Relational
- Search Engines
- NoSQL
Caching
- Memory Cache
- Distributed Cache
- Application-Level
- Response Caching
- Output Caching
- Entity Framework 2nd Level Cache
Log Frameworks
API Clients & Communications
- REST
- gRPC
- GraphQL
Real-Time Communication
Object Mapping
Background Task Scheduler
Testing
- Unit Testing
- Frameworks
- Mocking
- Assertion
- Fake Data Generators
- Integration Testing
- Snapshot Testing
- Behavior Testing
- E2E Testing
- Performance Testing
- Architecture Testing
- Unit Testing
Microservices
- Message-Brokers
- Message-Bus
- API Gateway
- Containerization
- Orchestration
- Other
Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
Design Patterns
- Categories
- Tutorials 📚
Monitoring/Logging/Tracing/Alerting
- Monitoring
- On-Premises
- Cloud
- Logging
- Tracing
- Alerting
- On-Premises
- Cloud
- Monitoring
Client-Side .NET
Good to Know
Microsoft courses
Microsoft has some very interesting online courses on its technologies. They're all free.
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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