Making Arcus Templates More Powerful

Recently we released v0.2.0 of the Arcus.Templates project and it isnow  available on NuGet. This library will boost development for new projects with option-in/out of commonly used functionality.

Take a look what theses templates have to offer.

Web API Template

Version v0.1.0 only contained some basic functionality, exception handling, and an option to add a shared key authentication mechanism. With version v0.2.0 we provide a lot more.

Here’s what the default template contains without any additional configurations:

• Exception middleware to log unhandled exceptions thrown during request processing.
• Content negotiation that only supports application/json.
• OpenAPI docs generation and UI (only available locally).
• Provides basic health endpoint with ASP.NET Core health checks with OpenAPI support.
• Docker building file.
• Default console logger.

Besides that, we have provided a whole range of additional functionality that can be optioned-in/out during the creation of the template:

• We improved the authentication in our API by adding JWT and client certificate authentication.
• The template now allows you to include a appsettings.json file in the project.
• Correlation between HTTP requests/responses is by default included in the project but can be option-out.
• Our built-in OpenAPI docs generation and UI can be excluded with opt-out.
• If you prefer Serilog instead of default console, you can opt-in for that.

For more info see the docs.

Azure Service Bus Queue/Topic Templates

As of v0.2.0, we’ve introduced two new templates for creating .NET workers a message pump that is either listening on a Azure Service Bus Queue or Topic.

Both templates are available on NuGet – Queue message pump template and Topic message pump template.

Here’s what default is available in the template without any additional configurations:

• TCP health check probe (official docs & Arcus docs).
• Empty message pump on Azure Service Bus Queue or Topic (official docs)
• Dockerfile.

Besides that, each template provides an option to exclude the Serilog logging infrastructure in the worker project.

For more info on our messaging templates, have a look at our documentation:

• Azure Service Bus Queue template (docs)
• Azure Serivce Bus Topic template (docs)

Thanks for reading!

Stijn