A quick guide to use dotnet core CLI

dotnetcore-cli-cheatsheet.md

create and cd into app folder

~ $ mkdir myapp && cd app

create new solution file. If no name is specified file is automatically named after the parent folder

~/app $ dotnet new sln 

create a project called api from webapi template

~/app $ dotnet new webapi -n api

add api project to solution file

~/app $ dotnet sln add api/api.csproj

create a project called lib from classlib template

~/app $ dotnet new classlib -n lib

add lib project to solution file

~/app $ dotnet sln add lib/lib.csproj

reference lib project inside api project

~/app $ dotnet add api/api.csproj reference lib/lib.csproj

add nuget package to api project

~/app $ dotnet add api/api.csproj package Swashbuckle.AspNetCore

using cURL

$ curl -v -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name":"john doe"}' http://localhost:5000/api/whatevs