Getting started with HttpClientFactory in C# and .NET 5

HttpClientFactory is a useful tool in .NET ecosystem that provides an opinionated factory for creating HttpClient instances. It addresses issues related to managing the lifetime of HttpClientHandlers and helps avoid problems with trying to handle HttpClient lifetimes manually. In this post, three basic implementations of HttpClientFactory are discussed: using it directly, named clients, and typed clients. Each implementation offers different benefits in terms of configuration, reusability, and testability.