Serverino - It's a simple way to host your applications

Features

• Host multiples application on server
• Compatible with Asp.Net Core MVC
• Runtime update application hosted

How it works

When you run the Serverino.Watch, it will create a folder on executable path, called apps. All the application that need host, you need create a inner folder with name of library, for example:

Serverino.Watch.exe
/apps
└───/SampleApp
    └───SampleApp.dll
    └───appsettings.json

This will host a SampleApp application on some port, the port is in configuration file.
Every change on this inner folder, will trigger an update process and the hosted application will restart.

How to create an web api

First of all, create a .Net Core Library and set this library as net5.0 and add the reference Microsoft.AspNetCore.App, this way the library goes to resolve dependencies on compile for your web application.

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <FrameworkReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.App" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

Now, crate a folder with name Controllers and add all your controllers class into this folder:

using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;

namespace SampleApp.Controllers
{
    [Route("api/[controller]"), ApiController]
    public class BooksController : ControllerBase
    {
        [HttpGet("all")]
        async public Task<IActionResult> GetAllBooks([FromServices]IConfiguration configuration)
            => await Task.FromResult(Ok(configuration.GetValue<string>("booksResult", "Didn't came from configuration file")));
    }
}

Now, we need create a configuration file, this file must have some configuration for the host application, as we said on How it Works section. So, create a file on project and use the name appsettings.json, after this add on project(edit *.csproj) to always copy:

  <ItemGroup>
    <None Include="appsettings.json" CopyToOutputDirectory="Always" />
  </ItemGroup>

And the content of your configuration file must have somenthing like this:

{
    "port": "$PORT",
    "booksResult": "This is a value from appsettings"
}

Change the value $PORT for port of your application needs to listen. That's it! Now compile the project, run the Serverino.Watch.exe, drop the output of your app-library into folder at apps folder and watch the show!