Walkthrough Post - https://tattoocoder.com/building-vnext-web-api-using-mvc-6-mongodb-azure/
Example application using MongoDB.
This is a quick walkthrough on using ASP.NET 5 to build a Web API layer using MongoDB. The overall concept is not too dissimilar from previous examples you may have seen using X type of database, however there are some areas covered that are either new in MVC 6 that you may find you didn't know are there.
####Topics Covered
- ConfigurationModel
- config.json
- Environment Variables
- OptionsModel
- Dependency Injection (IServiceCollection)
- Forcing JSON or Removing XML Formatter, Content Negotiation
- MongoDB
- Installation (OSX & Windows)
- mongocsharpdriver (nuget package)
####Outline
- Project Creation
- Visual Studio
- File -> New -> Project -> ASP.NET 5 Empty
- Yeoman Generator
- Visual Studio
- Setting up dependencies
- IIS Hosting, Self Hosting
- MVC
- Startup.cs
- Configuration
- Dependency Injection
- MongoDB
- Installation (OSX & Windows)
- Test Data
- Tools
- Robomongo
- Powershell or Terminal
- Adding the Model
- Adding the Controller