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I would like to develop a web browser based interface that can be accessed locally and remotely for a C# console application. I would love this to be a light weight, self hosted app if possible (as long as that means it can be accessed over the web).

I am confused about the differences of

  1. Web API
  2. OWIN
  3. Katana

I started a Web API tutorial which led to an OWIN tutorial which led to a Katana introduction. I'm not sure now what is the right path.

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closed as too broad by gnat, durron597, MichaelT, Matthew Flynn, Ixrec Oct 14 '15 at 22:49

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Just to add to the confusion, you could also consider a NancyFX-based stack: nancyfx.org / github.com/NancyFx/Nancy/wiki/Documentation .. You can run self-hosted Nancy with or without Owin. At this point in time, it's a lot of mix-n-match when going for web in .Net. I've personally found rhe easiest way to get going with self-hosted web in .Net is self-hosted Nancy: github.com/NancyFx/Nancy/wiki/Self-Hosting-Nancy - though stuff like SignalR won't work with this approach and YMMV etc. – cwap Oct 14 '15 at 6:11
    
Note that most variants which call themselves "self hosting" are still using the central http.sys with the associated disadvantages. There exists a proper self hosting implementation, (http server implemented in C#) but I forgot its name. – CodesInChaos Oct 14 '15 at 13:19

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