You Don’t Need MediatR? I Built My Own 🚀


Hey Reader,

You may have seen the recent blog post from Jimmy Bogard (creator of MediatR and AutoMapper) announcing that these libraries are going commercial.

And to be clear, I fully support that. Time is money, and supporting your family always comes first.

BUT…

In most of my projects, I don’t actually use everything MediatR offers. I usually just need a small part of it, the classic "send a request, get a response" pattern.

So I thought: why not build a simple version myself?

👉 That’s exactly what I did in my latest video:

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I show you how to create your own lightweight MediatR-style handler system using just interfaces and a little bit of reflection.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Implement IRequest and IRequestHandler
  • Build your own ISender interface
  • Register everything automatically with reflection (so your Program.cs stays clean!)
  • Use it in a vertical slice-style project

Let me know what you think. Should I publish this as a NuGet package? 🤔

Take care,

Patrick

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