ASP.NET Core Template Pack

Contains the following project templates for ASP.NET Core development:

• Static website template
• MVC Basic template
• MVC Fast template
• Blog application
• Photo Gallery application

Install

Command line

In the console, execute the following command:

dotnet new -i "MadsKristensen.AspNetCore.Web.Templates::*"

Visual Studio 2017.3

The extension adds the project template to the ASP.NET New Project dialog:

Templates

Static Website

Uses the ASP.NET Core project system to provide the latest features in Visual Studio web tooling to create a completely static website. No C# in the project at all - just plain old CSS, JavaScript and HTML.

Custom MimeType mappings

See the Static Site Helper repo for how to serve custom file extensions at development time through ASP.NET Core.

Use

dotnet new staticweb -n myapp

MVC Basic

This template makes it super easy to get started with building an ASP.NET Core MVC application. It doesn't have any dependencies on Bower, npm, BundlerMinifier, Bootstrap, jQuery or anything else. It's the perfect starting point for developers that know their ASP.NET Core.

Use

dotnet new mvcbasic -n myapp

MVC Fast

This template is a variation of the MVC Basic template, but with added features for creating high performance web applications.

Features:

• Using Gulp to bundle and minify CSS and JS files
• Minifies the HTML
• Uses response caching on both client and server
• Inline CSS for above the fold content
• Cache busting of CSS and JS references

The template points starts you out with the best score on webpagetest.org.

As well as 100/100 points on PageSpeed Insights

Use

dotnet new mvcfast -n myapp && npm install

Blog application

This is the Miniblog.Core application - a high performant and full featured blogging app.

Photo Gallery application

This is the Photo Gallery application - A photo gallery site implemented in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Razor Pages.