Same experience here. I wrote some C# Windows apps a few years ago, I jumped to write a REST API and the experience was painful: the documentation is confusing,

Same experience here. I wrote some C# Windows apps a few years ago, I jumped to write a REST API and the experience was painful: the documentation is confusing, the REST API projects are even more confusing, I got what I wanted but it felt like a big accomplishment to go through the complexities. By comparison I wrote that API in PHP in a couple of hours - it had more code, but my team mates were able to understand easily how it worked. I am not saying PHP is better, I am saying it is much easier to use and there are probably more examples out there of simplicity.