Awesome .NET Core

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Contents

• General
• Frameworks, Libraries and Tools
  • API
  • Application Frameworks
  • Application Templates
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Blockchain
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  • Build Automation
  • Bundling and Minification
  • Caching
  • CMS
  • Code Analysis and Metrics
  • Compression
  • Compilers, Transpilers and Languages
  • Cryptography
  • Database
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  • Database Tools and Utilities
  • Date and Time
  • Distributed Computing
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  • Exceptions
  • Functional Programming
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  • Machine Learning and Data Science
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  • Template Engine
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• Roadmaps
• Starter Kits
• Sample Projects
• Articles
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• Community

General

• ASP.NET Core Documentation - The official ASP.NET Core documentation site.
• .NET Core Documentation - Home of the technical documentation for .NET Core, C#, F# and Visual Basic, including basic concepts, getting started instructions, tutorials and samples.
• .NET Core SDK - .NET Core SDK is a general purpose development platform maintained by Microsoft and the .NET community on GitHub.
• .NET Platform Standard - The differrent between the old version and the new version of .NET.
• Introducing .NET Standard 2.0 - The description of what will be going on for .NET Standard 2.0 and the roadmap for some missing parts of the current .NET Standard.
• Clean Code .NET/.NET Core - Clean Code concepts adapted for .NET / .NET Core.

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools

API

• autorest - Swagger (OpenAPI) Specification code generator featuring C# and Razor templates. Supports C#, Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Python and Ruby. 4.5.x or above
• aspnet-api-versioning - set of libraries which add service API versioning to ASP.NET Web API, OData with ASP.NET Web API, and ASP.NET Core.
• AspNetCoreRateLimit - ASP.NET Core rate limiting middleware.
• CondenserDotNet - API Condenser / Reverse Proxy using Kestrel and Consul, Including light weight consul library.
• Flurl - Fluent URL builder and testable HTTP for .NET https://flurl.dev.
• GraphQL
  • Dapper.GraphQL - A library designed to integrate the Dapper and graphql-dotnet projects with ease-of-use in mind and performance as the primary concern.
  • graphql-aspnetcore - ASP.NET Core MiddleWare to create a GraphQL end-point.
  • graphql-convention - This library is a complementary layer on top that allows you to automatically wrap your .NET classes into GraphQL schema definitions using existing property getters and methods as field resolvers
  • graphiql-dotnet - GraphiQL middleware for ASP.NET Core.
  • graphql-dotnetcore - GraphQL for .NET Core based on https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js.
  • graphql-dotnet - GraphQL for .NET.
  • graphql-dotnet-server - GraphQL for .NET - Subscription Transport WebSockets.
  • Hot Chocolate - GraphQL server for .Net Core and .NET Framework.
  • FSharp.Data.GraphQL - FSharp implementation of Facebook GraphQL query language https://fsprojects.github.io/FSharp.Data.GraphQL.
  • parser - A lexer and parser for GraphQL in .NET.
  • tanka-graphql - GraphQL execution and server libraries supporting SignalR, Apollo, schema manipulation and other features familiar from Apollo and graphql-js
• halcyon - HAL implementation for ASP.NET.
• JSON API .NET Core - Framework for building json:api compliant APIs with the goal of eliminating RESTful boilerplate.
• LightNode - Micro RPC/REST Framework built on OWIN http://neuecc.github.io/LightNode.
• NetCoreStack.Proxy - The type-safe, distributed REST library for .NET Standard 2.0 (NetCoreStack Flying Proxy)
• NSwag - The Swagger/OpenAPI toolchain for .NET, Web API and TypeScript. http://NSwag.org.
• OData - The Open Data Protocol (OData) enables the creation of HTTP-based data services, which allow resources identified using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and defined in an abstract data model, to be published and edited by Web clients using simple HTTP messages.
• OpenAPI Generator - OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (e.g. C#, TypeScript, etc), server stubs (ASP.NET Core, NancyFx, etc), documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3).
• refit - The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET.
• RestClient.Net - Cross Platform REST Client for all C# platforms
• RestEase - Easy-to-use typesafe REST API client library, which is simple and customisable.
• RestLess - The automatic type-safe-reflectionless REST API client library for .Net Standard.
• Restier - RESTier is a RESTful API development framework for building standardized, OData V4 based RESTful services on .NET platform.
• Restsharp - Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET
• Swashbuckle - Seamlessly adds a swagger to WebApi projects.
  • MicroElements.Swashbuckle.FluentValidation - Adds FluentValidation rules to swagger.
  • Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.Filters - A bunch of useful filters for Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.
• WebAnchor - Web Anchor provides type-safe, testable and flexible, runtime-generated access to web resources.
• WebAPIContrib for ASP.NET CORE - Community Contributions for ASP.NET Core.

Application Frameworks

• ASP.NET Boilerplate - ASP.NET Boilerplate is a general purpose application framework especially designed for new modern web applications. It uses already familiar tools and implements best practices around them to provide you a SOLID development experience.
• Abp vNext - Abp vNext is the next generation of the open source ASP.NET Boilerplate framework. It's a complete architecture and strong infrastructure to create modern web applications! Follows best practices and conventions to provide you a SOLID development experience.
• AsyncEx - A helper library for async/await.
• Aeron.NET - Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport - .NET port of Aeron.
• akka.net - Toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven applications on .NET & Mono.
• Aggregates.NET - Aggregates.NET is a framework to help developers integrate the excellent NServiceBus and EventStore libraries together.
• ASP.NET MVC - Model view controller framework for building dynamic web sites with clean separation of concerns, including the merged MVC, Web API, and Web Pages w/ Razor.
• Butterfly Server .NET - Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort. Define a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients.
• CAP - An EventBus with local persistent message functionality for system integration in SOA or Microservice architecture.
• Carter - Carter is a library that allows Nancy-esque routing for use with ASP.Net Core.
• Chromely - Lightweight Alternative to Electron.NET, Electron for .NET/.NET Core.
• Cinchoo ETL - ETL Framework for .NET (Parser / Writer for CSV, Flat, Xml, JSON, Key-Value formatted files).
• CQRSlite - Lightweight framework for helping writing CQRS and Eventsourcing applications in C#.
• dataaccess_aspnetcore - The DataAccess Toolbox contains the base classes for data access in ASP.NET Core with Entity Framework Core 1.0 using the unit-of-work and repository pattern.
• DNTFrameworkCore - Lightweight and Extensible Infrastructure for Building High Quality Web Applications Based on ASP.NET Core.
• DotNetCorePlugins - .NET Core library for loading assemblies as a plugin.
• DotnetSpider - DotnetSpider, a .NET Standard web crawling library similar to WebMagic and Scrapy. It is a lightweight ,efficient and fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for .NET.
• DotNetty - Port of netty, event-driven asynchronous network application framework.
• dotvvm - Open source MVVM framework for Web Apps.
• ElectronNET - Build cross platform desktop apps with ASP.NET NET Core.
• EmbedIO - A tiny, cross-platform, module based web server for .NET Framework and .NET Core.
• Ether.Network - Ether.Network is an open source networking library that allow developers to create simple, fast and scalable socket server or client applications over the TCP/IP protocol.
• EventFlow - Async/await first CQRS+ES and DDD framework for .NET.
• ExcelDataReader - Lightweight and fast library written in C# for reading Microsoft Excel files.
• ExtCore - Free, open source and cross-platform framework for creating modular and extendable web applications based on ASP.NET Core 1.0.
• Finbuckle.MultiTenant - Finbuckle.MultiTenant is a .NET Standard library for multitenant support designed for ASP.NET 2.0+. It provides functionality for tenant resolution, per-tenant app configuration, and per-tenant data isolation.
• fission - Fast Serverless Functions for Kubernetes.
• grpc - Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) provide a useful abstraction for building distributed applications and services. The libraries in this repository provide a concrete implementation of the gRPC protocol, layered over HTTP/2. These libraries enable communication between clients and servers using any combination of the supported languages.
• Halibut - A secure communication stack for .NET using JSON-RPC over SSL.
• MagicOnion - gRPC based HTTP/2 RPC Streaming Framework for .NET, .NET Core and Unity.
• MassTransit - Distributed Application Framework for .NET.
• microdot - An open source .NET microservices framework.
• MoreLINQ - Extensions to LINQ to Objects.
• Nancy - Lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .NET and Mono.
• opencvsharp - .NET Framework wrapper for OpenCV.