Paket VS ApiEndpoints

I'm not sure if it will help in your scenario, but faced with a similar problem (~80 project solution, mixed c#/f#, with varying dependencies), I found success with Paket (https://github.com/fsprojects/Paket)

It is much more prevalent in the f# community (at this point `dotnet restore` is a perfectly fine default until you hit trouble), but isn't limited to just being applied there.

You can find the official docs here: https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/

Another thing that might be worth considering for you is Paket. This is an alternative to using nuget, directly, and will take a little bit of setting up (follow their instructions), but once you have it, it will make sure that all dependencies and transitive dependencies for all your projects are the same. Not 100% sure if this would solve the issue for you, and it might be tricky if the realApplication has unknown shared dependencies with the other projects, but you can give it a try.

Check out https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/ and https://fake.build/ and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/get-started/get-started-vscode for playing with F#.

So I am stuck again when I want to create a web app. Don't laugh. Once again, I come from *NIX environment and the way everything is started in WebSharper is quite confusing at first. I tried to go installation documentation but I don't use Visual Studio nor MonoDevelop. Using paket also doesn't solve my problem since they also seem to use Visual Studio or MonoDevelop.

a bit of follow up: this is because the init command you ran defaulted to those frameworks. it could be smarter, or it could default to something more recent. I opened this PR to update this default.

If this would be true, there would be no reason for something like Paket to exist.

I agree with the author about the slow inner loop experience. Recompiling the whole app to see browser changes gets tiring. The .NET team is planning a series of updates to address this in .NET 6. https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/5510

I also dislike the default workflow for dealing with Nuget forks. I switched to Paket for dependency management which makes this much simpler. https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/

Also, I stumbled on this ticket https://github.com/fsprojects/Paket/issues/3064 which seems to confirm my fear that Paket is limited to importing files from Github, not entire packages, but I'm still hoping.

I personally prefer the API Endponts project that doesn’t get the love it deserves. It’s really the best of both worlds. It breaks each endpoint up into one file to make it easier to manage and prevents ginormous Controllers.

I personally think it feels "cleaner" when using the controllers instead because they provide more out of the box features. Having one endpoint per file is a nice thing so I'm thinking about using the ApiEndpoints ( https://github.com/ardalis/ApiEndpoints ) package.

You can follow a "controller per endpoint" strategy. One good way to do it is with Steve Smith ApiEndpoints: https://github.com/ardalis/ApiEndpoints

I'm not disputing the benefits of thin controllers but there are other ways to make the controllers thinner. For example, I could use libraries such as ApiEndpoints which allows me to have one handler class per REST endpoint. Basically, MediatR pattern but at the ASP.net level.

The only think I would suggest is to break endpoints into separate files via smth like this https://github.com/ardalis/ApiEndpoints

You really should compare against https://github.com/ardalis/ApiEndpoints