make code
One of the things I find to be small hassle in using the dotnet cli for running projects via dotnet run is having to specify the target project as soon as I add some testing projects to the solution. I know I could always cd to the folder of the relevant .csproj file, but that's roughly equal hassle, and I generally prefer to just stay at the root of a project most of the time. I took a little time recently to see if maybe things had changed and you could specify a default project in a .sln or .slnx file, but alas.
However, this stack overflow answer suggesting using a Makefile is a really good solution for me. As a solution, I think it is very customizable, less of a bother than making shell scripts for it, and clear what's going on when you look at it. My favorite little thing is that running make watch-test doesn't actually change the directory of the terminal, so when I stop running tests under the watch, I'm still at the directory root. Delightful!
Here's what I currently have going on in for the one place I'm currently using it (folder names redacted)
watch:
dotnet watch run --project ./SomeFolder/SomeFolder.csproj
run:
dotnet run --project ./SomeFolder/SomeFolder.csproj
watch-test:
cd ./SomeFolder.UnitTests && dotnet watch test
outdated:
dotnet outdated -exc FluentAssertions
outdated-upgrade:
dotnet outdated -exc FluentAssertions -u