5 HttpClient Best Practices Every .NET Dev Should Know

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Are you using HttpClient the wrong way in .NET? In this video, I’ll walk you through 5 HttpClient best practices every .NET developer should know. These tips will help you avoid common mistakes, improve performance, and write cleaner, more maintainable code.

What you’ll learn:
Why you should never create HttpClient directly
The difference between named and typed clients
How to add resilience policies (retries, circuit breakers, timeouts)
Using strongly typed responses with System.Text.Json
How service discovery in .NET Aspire removes hard-coded URLs

By the end, you’ll have a clear playbook for using HttpClient in production-ready .NET applications.

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