Dotnet templates for grpc-csharp-course

This repository contains two templates for creating gRPC project faster during my Udemy course (repo: grpc-csharp-course)

You should clone this repository in a folder called working and to install the templates run:

dotnet new --install working/templates/grpcserver
dotnet new --install working/templates/grpcclient

and to uninstall:

dotnet new --uninstall working/templates/grpcserver
dotnet new --uninstall working/templates/grpcclient

After having installed the templates, you will be able to run the following commands:

dotnet new grpcserver
dotnet new grpcclient

Why ?

The original grpc template provided with the dotnet CLI comes with a lot of boilerplate and this is quite annoying, especially when recording a online course. Furthermore, the dotnet CLI does not provide a way to create a client easily. Even though my client template is a basic console app, this could be replicated easily to other more complex setups.

grpcserver

This template is a bare bone grpc server without any proto file and any service. It contains a dependency to Grpc.AspNetCore.

grpcclient

This template is a console project having dependency to Google.Protobuf, Grpc.Net.Client and Grpc.Tools.