Cake
:cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system. (by cake-build)
Marten
.NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL (by JasperFx)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Cake
Posts with mentions or reviews of Cake.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-04.
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Unpopular opinion: CI/CD engines are an awful idea
This is why 90-99% of our builds are done with Cake. It isolates all of it and you can run the build locally if you want.
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Cake : A C23 to C99 transpiler
I don't think it will get too much confusion, but there is a build system called Cake: https://cakebuild.net/
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Achieving single command Infrastructure deployment using PowerShell DSC.
You may use other tools too: psake, make, cake, fake or any other *ake you are familiar with. I look at them as a tools that make build tasks behind simple commands and help me answer: How did I run that code again?
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.NET build tool using Bullseye and SimpleExec
NAnt was quite a popular build tool used by projects of all sizes targeting .NET Framework on Windows. I have written many complex build systems using NAnt in the past. But XML based DSL was quite clunky to use and maintain. Besides, it was always a daunting task to explain to a new dev on the team. With .NET Core/.NET becoming a cross-platform framework, CAKE and FAKE gained a lot of adoption providing a C# and F# based DSL for build tasks accordingly.
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Nuke Build - best build automation system
Cake (C# Make) - simple, easy to set up, and with a lot of extensions scripting with C#.
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Creating reusable build scripts with NUKE components
For those not familiar with it, Cake is a build automation system with a C#-based DSL. It is based on the concept of tasks, which are small units of work, like restoring packages, building, or testing, which can have dependencies on, or trigger, other tasks.
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A super simple make wrapper for docker/podman that runs all your targets in a container - just a utility I put together to make my life slightly easier, nothing fancy
Just a note: there's already a very active community of the same name for the build utility Cake.
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A stupid simple make wrapper that makes my life easier
Looks interesting! Although the name clashes with Cake (C# Make) project which could be confusing - https://cakebuild.net/
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Introducing Cake ClickOnce Recipe - An opinionated recipe for building and publishing .NET 5 Windows apps
The recipe utilizes the Cake build automation .NET Tool in the background, but essentially the recipe exposes a C# class with a few properties you can control the recipe behavior, but the intention is that you should just set what's needed for your application and rest boring boiler plate is handled for you, and the recipe will automatically detect if it's running on GitHub actions and provided right secrets in place publish to Azure blob storage.
Marten
Posts with mentions or reviews of Marten.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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Dapper vs. Entity Framework With Postgres
Id recommend trying out MartenDb. It's not really a PostgreSQL ORM, it actually uses Postgres more as a document database via jsonb. But it's excruciatingly easy to use and schema updates are a breeze (and largely automatic)
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Show HN: Light implementation of Event Sourcing using PostgreSQL as event store
Check out Marten for a fully fleshed out implementation https://github.com/JasperFx/marten
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Yet another embedded DB (kind of)
I always loved Marten, it is so simple to use and yet powerful. If you are unfamiliar with it, it is a data access library (like an ORM) that is using JSON serialization and LINQ to store and query data from/to Postgres. It basically turns Postgres into document DB. Comparing it to EF, Marten doesn't require migrations since it stores documents.
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Self-Paced Kit: Introduction to Event Sourcing with Node.js and TypeScript
For that part, the samples use EventStoreDB (https://www.eventstore.com/), which is the only mature event store I know in Node.js land. Event Sourcing allows using any database as backing storage. I'm co-maintainer of the Marten (https://martendb.io/), which is a .NET library that allows using Postgres as event store and document db.
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CQRS is simpler than you think with C#11 and .NET 7!
Then you should check out Marten (https://martendb.io/). Our intention is to remove the boilerplate, we're using Postgres e having the built-in projections.
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Marten, a Crystal web framework that makes building web apps productive and fun
Not to be confused with the C# document database built on Postgres.
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Which libraries/frameworks are you using for Event Sourcing?
Haven't tried it myself yet, but they were in .NET foundation, them left after some drama: https://martendb.io/
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Straightforward Event Sourcing with TypeScript and NodeJS
Thanks for the feedback and the link! Indeed that looks similar. I think that too many NodeJS tooling is made by C# or Java devs bringing their OOP habits. In my opinion, TypeScript and NodeJS development shines the most when you're cutting all the boilerplate and keeping things simple. Functional composition helps in that. I'm also coming from the .NET world and am co-maintainer of the Postgres-based library: https://martendb.io/, but I try to keep my OOP habits on a leash ;) Out of curiosity, how are you dealing with the eventual consistency and the read-your-own-writes guarantee on MongoDB in your library?
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.NET build tool using Bullseye and SimpleExec
I personally advocate Bullseye in combination with SimpleExec as a build tool for .NET projects due to its sheer simplicity by providing a bare bones API to define the tasks and their dependent tasks in plain C# code. Both these libraries are build by Adam Ralph. It does not enforce any specific model or structure to write your build tasks. When someone runs through the build script, it is fairly straight forward to understand whats going on. We use this build tool setup for Marten for both local dev and CI build tasks and has worked well so far. Also many OSS projects have adopted it.
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GitHub action to publish .NET packages to NuGet
I have been a co-maintainer of .NET OSS library Marten and largely involved in taking care of the DevOps stuff pertaining to CI pipeline, build and docs system. In the early days, the build was driven using a RAKE build script written by Jeremy Miller, our lead dev and creator of Marten. NuGet packages were published from the local dev machine after confirming that we had bumped up the versions of the packages in preparation for the release. Apparently, this being a manual step, we publish the NuGet packages but sometimes tend to forget tagging and creation of release in GitHub (you know how an OSS author life is around managing day job and doing open source work).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Cake and Marten you can also consider the following projects:
NUKE - 🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET
Event Store - EventStoreDB, the event-native database. Designed for Event Sourcing, Event-Driven, and Microservices architectures
MSBuild - The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
MongoDB - The MongoDB Database
FAKE - FAKE - F# Make
Psake - A build automation tool written in PowerShell
RavenDB - ACID Document Database
Invoke-Build - Build Automation in PowerShell
Yessql - A .NET document database working on any RDBMS
Nake - Magic script-based C# task runner for .NET Core
efcore.pg - Entity Framework Core provider for PostgreSQL
LiteDB - LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file