Moving Beyond MediatR

For years, the MediatR package has been a default inclusion in almost every new .NET project template. It is frequently hailed as the gold standard for decoupling controllers or minimal APIs from business logic and implementing clean architecture or CQRS patterns.

However, as ASP.NET Core has matured, many of the architectural justifications for adding MediatR as a heavy third-party dependency have faded. If you are building standard CRUD or even moderately complex enterprise APIs, it might be time to ask yourself,