Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core 3.0 ⚡️

In this post, I describe how a small change in the ASP.NET Core 3.0 WebHost makes it easier to run asynchronous tasks on app startup using IHostedService. ✅

Unfortunately, in 2.x it wasn't possible to use any of the built-in ASP.NET Core primitives to achieve this ❌ :

• IStartupFilter has a synchronous API, so would require doing sync over async. 🤦🏻‍♂️

• IApplicationLifetime has a synchronous API and raises the ApplicationStarted event after the server starts handling requests. 🤷🏻‍♂️

• IHostedService has an asynchronous API, but is executed after the server is started and starts handling requests. 👍🏻

With ASP.NET Core 3.0, a small change in the WebHost code makes a big difference - we no longer need these solutions, and can use IHostedService without the previous concerns❗️


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