This document summarizes Jon Galloway's "ASP.NET Core One Hour Makeover" presentation. It covers picking the right starting template for an ASP.NET Core project, setting up source control and project structure, adding front-end libraries with LibMan, writing functional tests, optimizing for performance and SEO, and how to create a custom template. The presentation provides best practices for setting up a new ASP.NET Core project for maintainability and extensibility.

1. ASP.NET Core
One Hour Makeover
Jon Galloway
Microsoft
@jongalloway

2. Notes and
Links
https://aka.ms/aspnetcore-makeover

3. What we’ll cover
Intro (goals/non-goals/what you'll learn)
Pick The Right Starting Template
Source Control and Solution Structure
Front End
Maintainability
Performance
SEO
Making a Custom Template

4. Pick the Right Starting Template

5. SPA Templates
Web App
Web API
Blank Solution
Starting Templates

6. Source Control and Solution Structure
.gitignore
.editorconfig
global.json
Project.Web
Project.Tests

7. LibMan
(or not?)
Bootstrap
Icon Font
Front End
{
"version": "1.0",
"defaultProvider": "cdnjs",
"libraries": [
{
"library": "jquery@3.3.1",
"files": [
"jquery.min.js",
"jquery.js",
"jquery.min.map"
],
"destination": "wwwroot/lib/jquery/dist"
},
{
"provider": "unpkg",
"library": "bootstrap@4.1.3",
"destination": "wwwroot/lib/bootstrap/",
"files": [
"dist/css/bootstrap.css",
"dist/css/bootstrap-grid.css",
"dist/css/bootstrap-reboot.css",
"dist/js/bootstrap.js"
]
}
]
}

8. Functional Tests
Health Checks
Maintainability

9. Know the checklist
Response Compression
Response Caching
MiniProfiler
Performance

10. SEO
Dynamic sitemap.xml
Lowercase URLs

11. Custom Templates

14. Make Your Own!
> dotnet new -i C:UsersJonsourcereposOneHourMakeover
> dotnet new aspnetonehour
{
"$schema":
"http://json.schemastore.org/template",
"author": "Jon Galloway",
"classifications": [ "ASP.NET Core", "Solution"
],
"identity":
"JonGalloway.AspNetCoreSolutionTemplateTemplate
.CSharp",
"name": "ASP.NET Core One Hour",
"shortName": "aspnetonehour",
"sourceName": "OneHour"
}
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/custom-templates

15. https://aka.ms/aspnetcore-makeover
Notes and Links