dotnet6-openapi VS Paket

.NET Web API has great tooling for generating OpenAPI on build. Once you have this, you can easily generate TypeScript bindings for your front-end. See also: https://github.com/CharlieDigital/dotnet6-openapi

This will scaffold a project which is more or less the exact same as Flask, Express, or any other "easy" framework.

OpenAPI output is built-in, but tooling for development does require a bit of knowledge (agree that Microsoft would benefit from making this work out of the box).

A small repo here showing how to connect OpenAPI and front-end TypeScript client generation: https://github.com/CharlieDigital/dotnet6-openapi

I have one example that shows how to do this with Vue and Svelte: https://github.com/CharlieDigital/dotnet6-openapi

A lot of the work I've done is closed source, but I do have a simple template here that is a typical starting point: https://github.com/CharlieDigital/dotnet6-openapi

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.