use NuGet PackageReferences by default for Bolero.Templates

[ctaggart]

When getting started at https://fsbolero.io/ dotnet new -i Bolero.Templates creates a project that requires paket. I don't use paket any more and strongly prefer working with the build in NuGet package references. It supports transitive dependencies. It supports locking with the latest version as well. It works better with other dotnet tooling like dotnet publish and friends.

I'm creating this issue because I'm not the only one that hit this stumbling block: https://fsharp.slack.com/archives/C10DLSHQV/p1557920194474300

Although I'd prefer to see this project use NuGet packages as well, this request is for the templates, not quite the same as fsbolero/Bolero#43 .

[BentTranberg]

Just now found this: https://forums.websharper.com/topic/86603

This seems to be on Mono. I tried on Win10 when I failed to convert the template project to NuGet at first attempt. If I understand correctly, the solution is to add the following to the project when converting to NuGet:

<PackageReference Include="Blazor.Extensions.SignalR" Version="0.1.8" />

I understand this is perhaps slightly off topic, but thought the information might be of use here.

[Tarmil]

(Moving the issue to the Template repo)

For the template, I've now come to agree that it should use plain NuGet by default. Especially now that, for people who prefer Paket, @thinkbeforecoding's paket.install makes the conversion pretty painless, you just need to run:

paket.install && .paket/paket convert-from-nuget --force

We could provide a --paket option that would run the above as a post-create script (using a locally installed paket.install ofc).

[ctaggart]

Just saw https://twitter.com/fsbolero/status/1134103050149355520 with Bolero 0.5 released!

Looks like this was fixed by 2e59b9c

Nice, dotnet new bolero-app produced this for the client:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="Main.fs" />
    <Compile Include="Startup.fs" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Bolero" Version="0.5.28-preview*" />
    <PackageReference Include="Bolero.Build" Version="0.5.28-preview*" />
    <PackageReference Include="Bolero.HotReload" Version="0.5.28-preview*" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Build" Version="3.0-preview5-*" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.DevServer" Version="3.0-preview5-*" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

And this for the server:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.0</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="Startup.fs" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\ShinyToy.Client\ShinyToy.Client.fsproj" />
    <PackageReference Include="Bolero.Server" Version="0.5.28-preview*" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Server" Version="3.0-preview5-*" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>