Just a few weeks ago dotNetify passed the 100k NuGet downloads. I’m thrilled that so many people have found this project compelling enough to try out, and based on the feedback I’ve been getting, it’s being used in production as well!

For those who are unfamiliar with dotNetify, it’s an Apache2-licensed FOSS that does the following in a nutshell:

dotNetify provides a layer of MVVM-styled abstraction over SignalR to facilitate real-time communication between the web front-end of your application and its ASP.NET Core back-end.

It offers built-in integration with some client-side frameworks, such as React, Vue, and Blazor, resulting in code that’s declarative, concise, and easy to read. For example, here’s what it would look like to implement a rudimentary stock ticker UI using Vue:

Doesn’t it look clean? You only write views and its view models, and automatically get access to the bidirectional, real-time functionality provided by SignalR without having to write the low-level code yourself.

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