Introduction

Welcome to this Syncfusion Succinctly series e-book about NancyFX. Over the course of the next 100 or so pages, you'll become acquainted with the NancyFX microframework for .NET.

I'll explain what NancyFX is all about, where it came from, and what it can do for you as a .NET developer. NancyFX is more than just another web framework, and I'll teach you some of the many tricks that make it as easy as possible for you to create stunning “web-enabled” applications on the .NET platform.

The name “NancyFX” will be used interchangeably with “Nancy,” the latter being the more frequently used version of the name for current versions. Unless otherwise stated where I refer to Nancy or NancyFX, I'm referring to the framework.

The “Super-Duper-Happy-Path”

The creators of NancyFX even have their own catch phrase, and it's one that you'll hear often as you start to work with NancyFX, and for good reason.

NancyFX is Designed to "Just Work"

The "super-duper-happy-path" is the phrase used to describe the ease, simplicity, and ethos behind NancyFX (which you'll find out more about soon), and has become an almost religious expression among long-time users of the toolkit.

Code Samples

I will be presenting various snippets of code throughout this book, all of which are based around a sample NancyFX application I have written specifically to show off Nancy's capabilities.

We will start out quite basic, and gradually get more advanced as we work our way through the chapters, exploring further into the framework as we go.

Because NancyFX is such a modular framework, you will only need to go as far as you need to in order to learn the concepts you wish to understand. If all you need to learn is the basics of using the REST framework side of things, then you will not by any means need to read on to later chapters to gain further knowledge of the concepts being discussed.

All the code snippets presented in this book will be available in the final application, and where possible, I'll make a note of exactly which file to look in, and at which line. I'll make the application available on my own GitHub repository at https://github.com/shawty, and I believe the publisher, Syncfusion, will also make it available on its code repository.