Building a Production-Ready REST Client Layer on Top of Refit in .NET MAUI
Refit removes repetitive request construction, but production applications still need consistent policies for authentication, failures, telemetry, caching, and more. Jorge develops Shaunebu.Common.RESTClient as an architectural layer that keeps those cross-cutting concerns out of individual API contracts and app projects.
What you’ll learn
- Where Refit stops — declarative interfaces solve endpoint boilerplate, while enterprise networking still needs a coordinated pipeline around every request
- How to centralize cross-cutting concerns — compose authentication, correlation IDs, retries, circuit breakers, timeouts, logging, metrics, compression, and caching instead of copying
DelegatingHandlerchains between projects - How the client is structured — use a builder and dependency injection to register named API contracts, shared configuration, interceptors, serializers, and resilience policies
- How resilience and observability fit together — apply retry, timeout, and circuit-breaker behavior while emitting OpenTelemetry traces and metrics that make latency and failures diagnosable
- How to support varied payloads — select JSON, XML, MessagePack, or Protocol Buffers where appropriate and add compression without changing the calling model
- How to handle real application traffic — incorporate connectivity awareness, response caching, token refresh, request interception, and upload or download progress into one reusable layer
Read the full guide for the interfaces, pipeline design, registration examples, and implementation details behind a production-oriented Refit foundation.