.Net Core Installation

Steps to install the Frest .Net Core on your system🧑‍💻

System Requirements

Node: v14.17.3 or above (LTS)
.NET : 8.0 or Above

Info: VS Code installation steps are below. If you are using Visual Studio, please follow steps here

Installation

TIP: It's recommended to use YARN over NPM. In a comparison of speed, Yarn is much quicker and faster than most of the npm versions.
If you decide to use npm, make sure you use following command: npm install --legacy-peer-deps

First of all, make sure you have installed Node (LTS). If Node.js is already installed in your system, make sure the installed version is LTS and jump to step 2.
Once you have npm installed you can run the following command to install and upgrade Yarn. If you want to use npm than you can skip this step.

npm install --global yarn

Install the Gulp CLI: Open Terminal/Command Prompt and run the following command and wait until it finishes. If you have already installed Gulp CLI, you can skip this step and jump to step 3.

npm install --global gulp-cli

Install .NET Core SDK: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download.(Skip this step if using Visual Studio)
Open AspnetCoreFull or AspnetCoreStarter folder in VS Code.
In VS Code Extensions Tab, search @recommended and Install Workspace Extensions. (Skip this step if using Visual Studio)
Navigate to the Frest root directory AspnetCoreFull or AspnetCoreStarter and run following command to install our local dependencies listed in package.json.
You can use npm OR yarn as per your preference.

# For Yarn
yarn

# For npm
npm install --legacy-peer-deps

Reason for using npm install -legacy-peer-deps: In the new version of npm (v7), by default, npm install will fail when it encounters conflicting peerDependencies. Read more

The above command will install all the required Node.js modules into the node_modules/ directory inside your app folder. While installing this command you may see few warnings, don't worry about that for more details refer to our FAQ npm/yarn install warnings.

To build the assets, run the following command:

yarn build

Find more about assets compilation here

To run the Frest application, use below command :

dotnet watch

That will make your application to run in the browser automatically. Also, Restarts or hot reloads the specified application when changes in the source code are detected.

Also, find more about watch command here

For Visual Studio

Follow Step 1, 2 & 3 as described above
Install Visual Studio from here
Open the solution (.sln) file in Visual Studio.
In the solution explorer window right click on package.json and select Restore Packages. Wait while packages restored.
Open tasks window: View > Other Windows > Task Runner Explorer
Run build task to compile assets.
Run the project with / without debug. Debug > Start Debugging

Available Tasks

Info:

Gulp Tasks: Frest uses Gulp as task runner for compiling SCSS, minifying assets etc... You can use Yarn/Gulp Development/Production tasks to generate assets (It won't be use for .Net Core).
.Net Command: .NET command-line interface (CLI) is a cross-platform toolchain for developing, building, running, and publishing .NET applications.

Open command prompt/terminal, go to the Frest root directory and run yarn {task_name}.
For example, To generate compile assets, run yarn build.

Development Tasks (Yarn/Gulp)

Info: Development tasks won't minify assets.

Task (yarn or gulp) lists for development.

Yarn Task	Gulp Task	Description
`yarn watch`	`gulp watch`	Watch files for changes and automatically recompile them when it changed.
`yarn build`	`gulp build`	Compile sources and copy assets.
`yarn build:css`	`gulp build:css`	Compile SCSS sources and generate CSS.
`yarn build:js`	`gulp build:js`	Transpile & Compile JS sources using Webpack.

Production tasks (Yarn/Gulp)

Info: Production tasks will minify assets.

Task (yarn or gulp) lists for production.

Yarn Task	Gulp Task	Description
`yarn build:prod`	`gulp build --env=production`	Run build task in production environment.
`yarn build:prod:css`	`gulp build:css --env=production`	Run `build:css` task in production environment.
`yarn build:prod:js`	`gulp build:js --env=production`	Run `build:js` task in production environment.

.Net Commands

.Net command to run and watch the application. Find other commands from microsoft here.

.NET Task	Description
`dotnet run`	Run the application.
`dotnet watch`	Watch files for changes and automatically recompile them when it changed.
`dotnet build`	Builds a project and all of its dependencies.
`dotnet publish`	Publishes the application and its dependencies to a folder for deployment to a hosting system.

For .Net Core hosting and deployment documentation, please refer this