NuGet Modern Website Prototype
This project was created to check how the official NuGet website will look like after applying modern web-design styles. The most important details are listed below:
- the project is based on the .NET Core technology,
- it is only a prototype (much better results can be obtained),
- information presented on the website is correct and up-to-date because the script is communicating through the APIv3 with the NuGet platform.
Problems
During the implementation, some problems connected to the NuGet's APIv3 were encountered:
- provided statistics are not the same as the official ones on the website (e.g. number of downloads and number of packages from the API are smaller),
- some information is inconsistent, e.g. link to a package's icon sometimes is not working (maybe JS script can solve this problem and replace not working icons with placeholders? maybe the NuGet platform should clean the database from such URLs?),
- lists of packages got from the APIv3 have different forms (some additional conditions were added to the package repository class),
- the data format of the package can be different across views (general data about a package in the search query results; detailed information about the package), e.g. list of authors can be a list of strings or a single string instead of a list with a single element OR URLs for icons are different (and mostly on thee two URLs is not working),
- the APIv3 documentation is really poor, most information was extracted from production code published in the NuGet repositories and adapted to the project.
Screenshots
Main page
Searching for package
Package's details
Downloads section
