Supercharging Local Development with Aspire

About the session

It's a tale as old as time - you join a new team, you want to be productive, but getting the local development environment up and running proves to be a fruitless task. There's an old wiki page, shell scripts in a random repository, and repository Readme's referencing frameworks years out of date. The excitement of starting a new project soon turns to dread as the "Time-to-Login-Screen" stretches to days.

Enter Aspire - a new set of tooling from the .NET team that supercharges local development. In this talk, I'll walk through the basic building blocks and technologies behind Aspire. I'll cover examples of development dependencies and local insights and debugging through OpenTelemetry.

Finally, I walk through migrating a complex, multi-application, multi-framework, and multi-dependency example from Docker Compose and other tools to Aspire to provide one seamless experience for local development and debugging.