Vite SPA with ASP.NET Core Backend for Frontend

Dec 6, 2021 csharp docker typescript vite aspnetcore

Single-page-applications (SPAs) have a lot of desirable characteristics such as a high level of interactivity and ease of deployment. Unfortunately the security story is not as strong. Without a backend they have to store sensitive credentials they need to access APIs on the client side. These difficulties are further compounded by increasingly strict browser cookie defaults that make implementing more complicated auth flows like OpenID Connect very difficult.

Nuget Packages with Native Dependencies

Dec 3, 2021 csharp docker cmake cpp nuget

I often find myself having to consume native libraries in Nuget packages I publish. There are a lot of Nuget packages out there that do this, however there is very little up to date documentation about how you would do it yourself. Given the broad platform and architecture support of dotnet this can be decently complicated. Thankfully recent advancements in tooling have made this considerably easier, so let's get started.