---
title: ASP.NET Core tutorials
author: rick-anderson
description: A list of step-by-step guides for learning how to develop ASP.NET Core applications.
ms.author: riande
ms.date: 10/14/2017
uid: tutorials/xplat
---
# ASP.NET Core tutorials

The following step-by-step guides for developing ASP.NET Core applications are available:

## Build web apps

[Razor Pages](xref:razor-pages/index) is the recommended approach to create a new Web UI app with ASP.NET Core 2.0 and later.

* [Introduction to Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core](xref:razor-pages/index)
* Create a Razor Pages web app with ASP.NET Core

   * [Razor Pages on macOS](xref:tutorials/razor-pages-mac/index)
   * [Razor Pages with VS Code](xref:tutorials/razor-pages-vsc/index)  

* Create an ASP.NET Core MVC web app

   * [Web app with Visual Studio for Mac](first-mvc-app-mac/index.md)
   * [Web app with Visual Studio Code on macOS or Linux](first-mvc-app-xplat/index.md)

## Build Web APIs
* Create a Web API with ASP.NET Core

  * [Web API with Visual Studio for Mac](xref:tutorials/first-web-api-mac)
  * [Web API with Visual Studio Code](web-api-vsc.md)