The NuGet ecosystem

Reviewing NuGet 3.0 and some interesting projects within the NuGet ecosystem

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1. The NuGet ecosystem Reviewing some interesting projects Dev.Talk November 2015 Thomas Mentzel & Marcel Körtgen
2. Agenda •NuGet and changes in 3.0 •Built on top of NuGet •Chocolatey and beyond •Squirrel - ClickOnce reloaded •NuPlug - Pluins powered by MEF & NuGet •Klondike - Digging for NuGets
3. What is NuGet? •NuGet = Package Manager (libraries) • consume & produce packages (.nupkg) • .NET, C++ (CoApp) • integrated in Visual Studio •NuGet gallery → https://www.nuget.org/
4. Changes in NuGet 3.0 •UI changes → 100% rewrite •v3 protocol → perf & scalability •project.json
5. Changes in NuGet 3.0 Project.JSON •.NET Core (UWP) •Transitive Dependencies → maintainability •Global Packages → %userprofile%\.nuget\packages Dropped Features (mostly update issues) •solution level packages •install.ps1, uninstall.ps1 •content packages •config file transforms
6. Chocolatey •Package Manager (binaries) • “apt-get for Windows” • automates download & click-through •Gallery → https://chocolatey.org/ •Providers • Chef, Puppet, Boxstarter, OneGet, ...
7. OneGet •Unified interface to package management systems • shipped with Win10 or WMF 5.0 • https://github.com/OneGet/oneget •List of supported providers • https://github.com/OneGet/oneget/issues/77
8. Boxstarter •Easy scripting of Windows installations • Using chocolatey • Reboot resilient • Remote Installations • launch from url or Gist • built my Matt Wrock from Chef → http://boxstarter.org/
9. Squirrel •Squirrel: It's like ClickOnce but Works™ • https://github.com/squirrel/squirrel.windows • Uses .nupkg as deployment packages • Delta compression for updates! • https://github.com/mkoertgen/hello.squirrel •Used by Slack → https://slack.com/is
10. NuPlug •https://github.com/awesome-inc/NuPlug •NuGet as plugin library •Package with 1..n interface implementations •Procedure • load packages.config • download packages and dependencies (!) • get implementations for interface (MEF)
11. Klondike •https://github.com/themotleyfool/Klondike •Easy to use NuGet Server •SelfHost, IIS, Mono •Lucene index for fast searching •Proxy for non local-packages •User management and personal API keys
12. Summary •NuGet is great solving dependencies •The ecosystem makes it awesome because • get libraries for development in VS • install software with Chocolatey • create a plugin system with NuPlug • deploy an entire system with Boxstarter
13. Some References •NuGet Ecosystem (NuGet docs) •NuGet Team Blog •Octopus Deploy in the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar (Octopus Blog)
14. Thank You Time for Questions!