The Case for C# and .NET

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  • FrameworkBenchmarks

    Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

  • CleanArchitecture

    Clean Architecture Solution Template for ASP.NET Core

  • FluentValidation and Swashbuckle are two great libraries for the tasks you referenced. This is a good enough reference repository should your curiosity be piqued again in the future: https://github.com/jasontaylordev/CleanArchitecture

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Fable.Remoting

    Type-safe communication layer (RPC-style) for F# featuring Fable and .NET Apps

  • tonehub

    Provides an API for your personal collection of music, audio books and podcasts

  • Well, while I understand, what you are trying to say (a simple crud web api should be easy to accomplish), I think that you were just overwhelmed by amount of possibilities, tutorials and outdated information, because C# / .NET is evolving fast.

    That said, you may take a look at my small very early state pet project `tonehub`[1], which can be seen as pretty modern CRUD Web API in 2022, utilizing swashbuckle for OpenAPI, JsonApiDotNet for CRUD, Entity Framework 6 for Database, HostedServices for background tasks and some other nice concepts (DI / IoC, Options Pattern, FileStreams, etc.). I could also use SignalR for WebSockets / Realtime, integrated OpenID/OAUTH2 Authentication and much more.

    [1] https://github.com/sandreas/tonehub

  • Paket

    A dependency manager for .NET with support for NuGet packages and Git repositories.

  • 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.

  • ionide-vscode-fsharp

    VS Code plugin for F# development

  • I don't disagree but it owes a lot of that to OCaml. That said, since we're talking about C#, F# and VS Code I'm gonna talk about a pet peeve I have. If you open a C# project in VS Code when the "Ionide" (basically the F# plugin for Code) is installed then Ionide thinks it's a F# project and will open some F# stuff after a few seconds (or prompt you to setup some F# stuff in its gitignore). The root cause has been identified (plugin activates when it sees a ".sln" file), a PR have been opened and rejected with no mention as to why (https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/pull/1401) and the developers behind it are frustratingly non-communicative about it, closing issues about it (https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/issues/1701). Usual rules about OSS maintainers apply, they don't technically owe us users anything ... but man it feels like we're being trolled by now :D

  • BaGet

    A lightweight NuGet and symbol server

  • Yeah I know all this, you can even use BaGet[1] symbol server to cache or manage private dependencies in an enterprise network. That is not the point... I think that the most used tool / platform should provide more flexibility for non-enterprise or less expierienced developers.

    No offense, I like nuget, but I recently made a typo and checked in 0.0.23 instead of 0.0.2. Now, everytime I add a dependency that is < 0.0.23 to a project, that has not been synchronized / validated yet (the other problem I described), it automatically takes the best match, which is 0.0.23 assuming to be the newest package, even if unlisted.

    I also burned a 1.0.0 because of a failing script like that... not really bad, but annoying...

    https://github.com/loic-sharma/BaGet

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  • .NET Runtime

    .NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.

  • > I use Java because there's OpenJDK

    Which is mostly (~95%) developed by Oracle and is about the same in its openness and community participation as

    https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/

    is.

    FWIW I also use Linux exclusively, develop (and host) dotnet applications on it, and have my own gripes with it (mostly with Linux still being treated as a second-tier platform which is only good for servers as far as MS is concerned — I'm not talking about the abomination that VS is — try to compare the official profiling & debugging tooling).

  • aws-lambda-runtimes-performance

    AWS Lambda Performance comparison

  • docs

    This repository contains .NET Documentation. (by dotnet)

  • You might be able to do something with this: https://github.com/dotnet/docs

    The browsy bits seem to require a server, but the documents themselves are markdown.

  • dotnet6-openapi

    An example of using .NET 6 Web APIs with client code generation

  • 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

  • apollo-client

    :rocket:  A fully-featured, production ready caching GraphQL client for every UI framework and GraphQL server.

  • If you look at how major backend projects structure their code, it's almost always object-oriented TypeScript.

    I submit for the record:

    - Apollo Client: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/blob/main/src...

    - Storybook: https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/blob/next/lib/chann...

    - Nest: https://github.com/nestjs/nest/blob/master/packages/core/nes...

    - MongoDB Driver: https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/blob/main/src...

    - Prisma: https://github.com/prisma/prisma/blob/main/packages/engine-c...

  • storybook

    Storybook is a frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation. Made for UI development, testing, and documentation.

  • If you look at how major backend projects structure their code, it's almost always object-oriented TypeScript.

    I submit for the record:

    - Apollo Client: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/blob/main/src...

    - Storybook: https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/blob/next/lib/chann...

    - Nest: https://github.com/nestjs/nest/blob/master/packages/core/nes...

    - MongoDB Driver: https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/blob/main/src...

    - Prisma: https://github.com/prisma/prisma/blob/main/packages/engine-c...

  • Nest

    A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript 🚀

  • If you look at how major backend projects structure their code, it's almost always object-oriented TypeScript.

    I submit for the record:

    - Apollo Client: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/blob/main/src...

    - Storybook: https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/blob/next/lib/chann...

    - Nest: https://github.com/nestjs/nest/blob/master/packages/core/nes...

    - MongoDB Driver: https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/blob/main/src...

    - Prisma: https://github.com/prisma/prisma/blob/main/packages/engine-c...

  • MongoDB

    The official MongoDB Node.js driver

  • If you look at how major backend projects structure their code, it's almost always object-oriented TypeScript.

    I submit for the record:

    - Apollo Client: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/blob/main/src...

    - Storybook: https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/blob/next/lib/chann...

    - Nest: https://github.com/nestjs/nest/blob/master/packages/core/nes...

    - MongoDB Driver: https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/blob/main/src...

    - Prisma: https://github.com/prisma/prisma/blob/main/packages/engine-c...

  • Prisma

    Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB and CockroachDB

  • If you look at how major backend projects structure their code, it's almost always object-oriented TypeScript.

    I submit for the record:

    - Apollo Client: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/blob/main/src...

    - Storybook: https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/blob/next/lib/chann...

    - Nest: https://github.com/nestjs/nest/blob/master/packages/core/nes...

    - MongoDB Driver: https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/blob/main/src...

    - Prisma: https://github.com/prisma/prisma/blob/main/packages/engine-c...

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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