Makes using ASP.NET Web API's self host with scriptcs easy as cake, much easier than [this] (https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs-samples/tree/master/webapihost) :)

• Creates a pre-configured self host with the default route already added.
• Configures to allow resolving script controllers.
• Automatically imports common web api namespaces for you.

Disclaimer: Ultimately (soon) you will be able to install this via nuget and not have to clone / build / copy

• Create a new folder for your script i.e. c:\hellowebapi and change to it.
• Install the Web API script pack scriptcs -install ScriptCs.WebApi
• Create a start.csx and paste the code below

public class TestController : ApiController {
  public string Get() {
    return "Hello world!";
  }
}

var webApi = Require<WebApi>();
var server = webApi.CreateServer("http://localhost:8080");
server.OpenAsync().Wait();
 
Console.WriteLine("Listening...");
Console.ReadKey();
server.CloseAsync().Wait();

• Running as admin type scriptcs start.csx to launch the app.
• Open a browser to "http://localhost:8080/test";
• That's it, your API is up!

You can customize the host by modifying the configuration object. Or if you would like to pass your own you can use the CreateServer overload. Additional CreateServer overloads allow you to explicitly specify assemblies or IHttpController types you want to expose in your api:

// Use a custom configuration and specify controller types.
var config = new HttpSelfHostConfiguration("http://localhost:8080");
var controllers = new List<Type> { typeof(TestController) };
var server = webApi.CreateServer(config, controllers)

TBD