Why 'dotnet new webapi' command is producing different folders for me

I’m a beginner in dotnet technology and I’m following a tutorial but upon using dotnet new webapi -n API it produces the API folder with the properties, obj and bin folder as in the picture below but it doesn’t have Controllers folder like in the tutorial. Can anyone guide me on this ? The project is using .NET 8.0

>Solution :

It seems to be a recent .NET 8 change resulting in the Minimal APIs used by default.

From the docs for dotnet new templates: webapi (with fixed typo – PR @github):

• -minimal|--use-minimal-apis
  Create a project that uses the ASP.NET Core minimal API. Default is false, but this option is overridden by --controllers. Since the default for --controllers is false, entering dotnet new webapi without specifying either option creates a minimal API project.

• -controllers, --use-controllers
  Whether to use controllers instead of minimal APIs. If both this option and -minimal are specified, this option overrides the value specified by -minimal. Default is false. Available since .NET 8 SDK.

So add -controllers/--use-controllers option to the command to get controllers:

dotnet new webapi -n API --use-controllers

Or

dotnet new webapi -n API -controllers