Running a WebApp in 5min ?

ASP.NET Tutorial - Hello World in 5 minutes

in a Language you never touched before … ? a Microsoft App running on Linux running in Docker running on macOS … ?

Let’ give a try …

Fireup Ubuntu via Docker, do Port Forward

docker run -it -p 5123:5123 --name dotnet-hello ubuntu:latest

add basics

apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade && apt-get -y install wget

add dotnet

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/22.10/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb && rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb
apt-get update && apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-7.0
dotnet --version

build webapp

dotnet new webapp -o MyWebApp --no-https -f net7.0

run webapp, change IP & Port

cd MyWebApp
sed -i 's#"applicationUrl".*#"applicationUrl": "http://0.0.0.0:5123",#' Properties/launchSettings.json
dotnet watch

Hello World

Let’s try again and measure time

The Question was, if it is possible to run the Sample App in less than 5min. We have to check that again.

Fireup Docker

docker run -it -p 5123:5123 --name dotnet-hello ubuntu:latest

around 2 seconds

Build App

time (apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade && apt-get -y install wget && \
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/22.10/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb && \
dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb && rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb && \
apt-get update && apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-7.0 && \
dotnet new webapp -o MyWebApp --no-https -f net7.0 && \
cd MyWebApp && \
sed -i 's#"applicationUrl".*#"applicationUrl": "http://0.0.0.0:5123",#' Properties/launchSettings.json)

real  0m47.210s
user  0m21.984s
sys   0m10.527s

Run the App

dotnet watch

around 5 seconds

Summary

is it possible to run a ASP.NET App in 5min ?

Yes, it is!

When everythings is prepared and working. You’re familiar with Docker, can do Port Forwarding, know that localhost on Docker is not reachable from Outside even with Port forward … you can even bring it down below 1min. Including Download Ubuntu from Docker, Patch it, Download and Install Dotnet, build the sample app an run it.

No, it is not!

I spent half an hour to get everything working fine. Without even look at the Code. Not talking about repeating it 5 x for writing the Summary and do the final Speedtest.

Last but not least

do not forget to cleanup you env. Stop the docker, and kill the Image …

- CTRL-C                    to stop the Webapp
- exit                      to exit Docker
- docker rm dotnet-hello    to remove the Container

Happy Hacking !

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