Awesome curated collection of libraries to build Software as a Service (SaaS) Web application using ASP.NET Core

Architecture references

• Microsoft Cloud Design Patterns
• Awesome collection of Sample architecture projects and real time applications
• Design Patterns for Humans
• ASP.NET Core Developer Roadmap

Project templates / Frameworks

• Dotnet-Boxed - Project templates with batteries included, providing the minimum amount of code required to get you going
• Clean Architecture - This is a solution template for creating a Single Page App (SPA) with Angular and ASP.NET Core following the principles of Clean Architecture.
• starter-kit - Web project starter kit including modern tools and workflow based on angular-cli, best practices from the community, a scalable base template and a good learning base.
• abp - ABP is a complete architecture and strong infrastructure to create modern web applications! Follows best practices and conventions to provide you a SOLID development experience.
• fission - Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes
• MassTransit - Distributed Application Framework for .NET

Also, I suggest watching this video on clean architecture by Jason Taylor.

Multitenancy

• Finbuckle.MultiTenant - Finbuckle.MultiTenant is a multitenancy library for ASP.NET Core. It provides functionality for tenant resolution, per-tenant app configuration, and per-tenant data isolation.
• cloudscribe - cloudscribe is a related set of projects and components for building cross platform web applications on ASP.NET Core. Get the big picture at cloudscribe.com
• OrchardCore - Orchard Core Framework: An application framework for building modular, multi-tenant applications on ASP.NET Core.
• aspnetboilerplate - ASP.NET Boilerplate multitenancy libraries
• saaskit - SaasKit is a .NET toolkit for building SaaS (Software As A Service) applications.

You can also check out blog posts on multitenancy by Ben Foster or Gunnar Peipman. These blogs will help you in setting up multitenancy in your project.

Logging / Monitoring

• Exceptionless - It provides real-time error reporting for your JavaScript, Node, .NET Core, ASP.NET, Web API, WebForms, WPF, Console, and MVC apps.
• Serilog - Serilog is a diagnostic logging library for .NET applications. It is easy to set up, has a clean API, and runs on all recent .NET platforms.
• NLog - NLog is a free logging platform for .NET with rich log routing and management capabilities. It makes it easy to produce and manage high-quality logs for your application regardless of its size or complexity.
• Ben.Demystifier - High performance understanding for stack traces (Make error logs more productive)
• elmah.io - elmah.io is the easy error logging and uptime monitoring service for .NET. Take back control of your errors with support for all .NET web and logging frameworks.
• prometheus-net - .NET Standard library to instrument apps for the Prometheus metrics and monitoring system
• Audit.NET - An extensible framework to audit executing operations in .NET and .NET Core.
• AuditLogging - Simple audit logging for .NET Core with EntityFramework Core
• BenchmarkDotNet - Powerful .NET library for benchmarking
• MiniProfiler - A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET (and Core) websites

Health checks

• AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks - ASP.NET Core Health Check packages for widely used services and platforms.

Autentication / Authorization

• IdentityServer4 - OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 Framework for ASP.NET Core
• JPProject.IdentityServer4.AdminUI - This is an Administrator Panel for IdentityServer4. It's available in 2 versions: Light and Full. See below the differences.
• PermissionAccessControl2 - An example application that contains an approach to feature and data authorization code.

Feature Management

• FeatureManagement-Dotnet - Feature flags provide a way for ASP.NET Core applications to turn features on or off dynamically.
• FeatureSwitch - FeatureSwitch is library that should reduce amount of time and code required to implement feature switching in your projects.

Validation

• FluentValidation - A small validation library for .NET that uses a fluent interface and lambda expressions for building validation rules.

Caching

• StackExchange.Redis - StackExchange.Redis is a high performance general purpose redis client for .NET languages
• CacheManager - is an open source caching abstraction layer for .NET written in C#. It supports various cache providers and implements many advanced features.
• HttpCacheHeaders - ASP.NET Core middleware that adds HttpCache headers to responses (Cache-Control, Expires, ETag, Last-Modified), and implements cache expiration & validation models

API Gateway / Reverse Proxy

• Ocelot - Ocelot is a .NET API Gateway.
• ProxyKit - toolkit to create code-first HTTP Reverse Proxies hosted in ASP.NET Core as middleware.
• YARP (preview) - A Reverse Proxy by microsoft

Service Communication

• Polly - Polly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, and Fallback in a fluent and thread-safe manner.

Documentation

• Swashbuckle.AspNetCore - Swagger tooling for API's built with ASP.NET Core. Generate beautiful API documentation, including a UI to explore and test operations, directly from your routes, controllers and models.
• redoc - OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation
• docsify-dotnet-core - a sample based on docsify static help document generator based on markdown.

Schedulers

• quartznet - Quartz.NET is an opensource project aimed at creating a free-for-commercial use Job Scheduler, with enterprise features.
• Hangfire - Incredibly easy way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring jobs inside ASP.NET applications.
• Runly - Multi-threaded batch processing and background jobs for .NET Core.

Mail

• MailKit - A cross-platform .NET library for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP.
• MimeKit - A .NET MIME creation and parser library with support for S/MIME, PGP, DKIM, TNEF and Unix mbox spools.
• FluentEmail - .NET Core email sending

Unit or Integration Testing

• xunit - xUnit.net is a free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework.
• moq - The most popular and friendly mocking framework for .NET
• NSubstitute - NSubstitute is designed as a friendly substitute for .NET mocking libraries.
• AutoFixture - It is an open source library for .NET designed to minimize the 'Arrange' phase of your unit tests
• fluentassertions - Fluent API for asserting the results of unit tests that targets
• snapshooter - Snapshooter is a snapshot WEB API testing tool for .NET Core and .NET Framework
• ApprovalTests.Net - ApprovalTest verification library for .Net
• squadron - A testing framework for containerized and cloud services
• magnet - ApprovalTest verification library for .Net
• Netling - Netling is a load tester client for easy web testing.
• Respawn - Intelligent database cleaner for integration tests
• jest-dotnet - Simple snapshot testing with inspiration from amazing Jest library.

ORM

• Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net by Stack Overflow
• RepoDb - A hybrid ORM library for .NET.
• Dapper-Plus - Dapper Plus - High-Efficient Bulk Actions (Insert, Update, Delete, and Merge) for .NET
• sqlkata - A fluent SQL query builder for C#
• dynamic-linq-query-builder - A truly generic and dynamic linq query builder to compliment jQuery QueryBuilder and other dynamic linq query generation needs.
• Insight.Database - Fast, lightweight .NET micro-ORM

Security

• NWebsec - Security libraries for ASP.NET
• CheatSheetSeries - Basic .NET security tips for developers.
• aspnetcore-security-headers - Middleware for adding security headers to an ASP.NET Core application.
• AspNetCoreRateLimit - ASP.NET Core rate limiting middleware
• HtmlSanitizer - Cleans HTML to avoid XSS attacks
• awesome-dotnet-security - Awesome .NET Security Resources

Cryptography

• BCrypt.net - A .net Core port of BCrypt.net
• Portable.BouncyCastle - The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a C# implementation of cryptographic algorithms and protocols

Misc

• EventStore - The open-source, functional database with Complex Event Processing in JavaScript.
• MessagePack-CSharp - Extremely Fast MessagePack Serializer for C#
• MediatR - Simple, unambitious mediator implementation in .NET
• AutoMapper - AutoMapper is a simple little library built to solve a deceptively complex problem - getting rid of code that mapped one object to another.
• Foundatio - Pluggable foundation blocks for building distributed apps.
• NSwag - The Swagger/OpenAPI toolchain for .NET, ASP.NET Core and TypeScript.
• AutoWrapper - A simple, yet customizable global exception handler and Http response wrapper for ASP.NET Core APIs.
• NRules - Rules engine for .NET, based on the Rete matching algorithm, with internal DSL in C#.
• elsa-core - A .NET Standard 2.0 Workflows Library
• cake-build - Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.
• BundlerMinifier - Visual Studio extension
• nodatime - A better date and time API for .NET
• CliWrap - CliWrap is a library for interacting with command line executables in a functional manner. It provides a convenient model for launching external processes, redirecting inputs and outputs, awaiting completion, and handling cancellation.
• FluentDocker - Commands, Services and Fluent API for docker, docker-compose & docker-machine, for win/mac/linux and native docker in c#
• FluentFTP - An FTP and FTPS client for .NET & .NET Standard, optimized for speed.
• reCAPTCHA - reCAPTCHA 2.0 for ASPNET Core
• Z.ExtensionMethods - C# Extension Methods | Over 1000 extension methods
• html-agility-pack - This is an agile HTML parser that builds a read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT
• NServiceBus - The most popular service bus for .NET
• YamlDotNet - YamlDotNet is a .NET library for YAML
• protobuf-net - Protocol Buffers library for idiomatic .NET
• TimeZoneConverter - Lightweight libraries to convert between IANA, Windows, Rails, and POSIX time zones.
• ExtCore - ExtCore is a free, open source and cross-platform framework for creating modular and extendable web applications based on ASP.NET Core.
• Detection - ASP.NET Core Detection with Responsive View for identifying details about client device, browser, engine, platform, & crawler.

For more such libraries check out awesome-dotnet-core

Code Quality - Static Analyzers

awesome-dotnet-core-static-analyzers - Awesome collection of .NET Core Static Analyzers using the .NET Compiler Platform (Roslyn). Also includes a How to guide for using these analyzers and sample project with Cake Build Script to integrate in Continuous integration.

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