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Minimal ASP.NET Core Dependencies for Google Cloud

After a long hiatus, I'm slowly starting back on blogging and some personal projects. To get me back in the swing of things, here's a short post on running ASP.NET core on Google Cloud, since this seems poorly documented online.

The default project created by the Google Cloud tools includes Microsoft.AspNetCore.All which is a huge dependency. If you want something more minimal:

  1. uninstall-package Microsoft.AspNetCore.All
  2. install-package Microsoft.AspNetCore
  3. install-package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Core
  4. install-package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc

This creates a runnable project using the standard Google Cloud Web API project template, although it still isn't ideal as it includes the Razor pages dependencies.

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John Zabroski said…
Nice! Welcome back! I've also been rather absent.
August 14, 2018 at 5:09 PM
David said…
Cool, welcome back. :)
August 26, 2018 at 5:44 PM
John Zabroski said…
Hi Sandro,

After looking into this issue myself for AWS, I realized the problem is not with Google Cloud Web API, but with the dotnet CLI. Run this on your local:

dotnet new -all
# Above command describes "web" as "ASP.NET Core Empty", which is misleading because it includes a ton of framework components under the NuGet super-package Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.1

# Run the following to confirm what I am saying:
dotnet new web
Get-Content .\obj\project.assets.json | ConvertFrom-Json | ForEach-Object { $($_.libraries -split ';') | Measure-Object }
September 4, 2018 at 4:44 PM
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