Introducing the .NET Aspire Community Toolkit
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Introduction
The .NET Aspire Community Toolkit has been officially released on NuGet and supports .NET Aspire 9. This toolkit contains various integrations and extensions to assist developers in building with .NET Aspire, allowing for more powerful applications. The community toolkit serves as a platform for third-party contributions to enhance the .NET Aspire ecosystem.
What's in the Toolkit
The Community Toolkit offers nearly a dozen integrations focused on hosting and client-related features. Some of the highlights include Ollama hosting, support for Go and Java/Spring application hosting, and additional Node.js features like using Yarn or pnpm. More integrations are continuously being added to the toolkit. The full list of integrations can be found in the official documentation or the GitHub repository.
Getting Started
To begin using the .NET Aspire Community Toolkit, you can install it from NuGet using Visual Studio tooling, VS Code tooling, or the .NET CLI. For instance, if you want to set up the Ollama hosting integration, you can install it via the command line as follows:
dotnet add package Aspire.Community.OllamaHosting
After installing, configure the Ollama hosting integration in your project file. You can then utilize the provided resource in other services within the application host and consume it using client libraries such as OllamaSharp.
Contribution
The .NET Aspire Community Toolkit thrives on community contributions. Major thanks to specific individuals for their contributions, and the project warmly welcomes further input and enhancements from the community.