MiniScaffold

What is MiniScaffold?

This is an F# Template for:

creating and publishing libraries targeting .NET 6.0 net6.0
creating and publishing applications targeting .NET 6.0 net6.0

Why use MiniScaffold

This takes away the ambiguity that developers face when creating an OSS project. Such as:

How do I structure my project?
How do I create repeatable builds?
Which test framework should I use?
How do I create releases easily?
What Issue/Pull Request templates should I use?
How should I go about creating documentation?
How do I get CI setup easily?
What's the standard .gitignore file?
What other things would make it easier for me when starting off creating a project I might not even know about?

What does this include in the box?

All project types

Standard project structure for your dotnet application
Build Automation tool via FAKE
Package management tool via Paket
Unit Testing via Expecto
Code Coverage via Altcover
- Also builds an html report with ReportGenerator
Code formatting style via Fantomas
Release build step commits latest CHANGELOG.md in the body and creates a git tag.
- If you reference a Pull Request in the CHANGELOG.md it will update that Pull Request with the version it was released in.
Release build step publishes a GitHub Release via the CHANGELOG.md and adds any artifacts (nuget/zip/targz/etc).
Continuous integration via GitHub Actions

For Libraries

Builds for net6.0 - Target Frameworks
- To build for net6.0 .NET 6.0 installed
Sourcelink which enables a great source debugging experience for your users, by adding source control metadata to your built assets
Documentation Generation - Generates Documentation from markdown files, fsx files, and the XML Documentation Comments from your library.
Release build step pushes NuGet packages to NuGet
- Generates Package Version from CHANGELOG.md
- Adds Package Release Notes metadata from CHANGELOG.md

For Applications

Basic argument parsing example via Argu
Builds a net6.0 application - Target Frameworks
- To build for net6.0
  - Have .NET 6.0 installed
Builds for win-x64, osx-x64 and linux-x64 - Runtime Identifiers. Bundles the application via dotnet-packaging
- Bundles the win-x64 application in a .zip file.
- Bundles the osx-x64 application in a .tar.gz file.
- Bundles the linux-x64 application in a .tar.gz file.

Getting started quickly

Install the dotnet template from NuGet:

dotnet new -i "MiniScaffold::*"

Then choose:

I want to build a Library

dotnet new mini-scaffold -n MyCoolNewLib --githubUsername MyGithubUsername

I want to build an Application

dotnet new mini-scaffold -n MyCoolNewApp --githubUsername MyGithubUsername -ou console

The scaffold defaults to using the main branch for releases. If you release from a different branch, you can use the --releaseBranch <branch name> parameter to use your release branch instead of the default.

Builds

GitHub Actions

NuGet

Stable	Prerelease

Options

githubUserName

This is used to automatically configure author information in the NuGet package, as well as configure push urls for repo locations.

outputType

Defaults to Library

When set to either Console or Library project and the supporting infrastructure around their respective types.

Known issues

Permission denied

-bash: ./build.sh: Permission denied

This is because dotnet template loses permissions of files. (TheAngryByrd#37) added a post hook to address this but this only fixes it for dotnet sdk 2.x users. dotnet sdk 1.x will need to run chmod +x ./build.sh

Appveyor badge not scaffolded correctly

Appveyor's conventions around generating URLs based on the project name has some nuances. See this issue for details.

SteveGilham/MiniScaffold