title: ASP .Net Core web app calling a Web API
body: <p>I am quite new to ASP .Net. In fact, I am quite new to web development (I come from a Windows development background). I need to create a web app, and have decided to create the backend as a Web API. So I created the web API using ASP .Net Core 1.1, and now I am at the point where I need to create the client side. I will be developing a web app front end - again using ASP .Net Core 1.1 like I did with the backend API - and a college will develop a phone app front end. Both will connect to same Web API.</p>
  
  <p>I've looked at some examples of ASP .Net Core web apps, but they all use Entity Framework to read/write to the database. My web app should not have any direct access to the database at all, but should instead interact with the database via the web API. Unfortunately I can't find any examples of an ASP .Net Core web app communicating with a Web API. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with Angular, etc. And although I will definitely be learning Angular soon enough, for now, I'd like to simply have my web app controllers call the Web API instead of making EF calls to the database.... Unless, of course, that is completely wrong :)</p>
  
  <p>If any one could point me in the right direction - perhaps to some sample code or something along those lines, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you</p>