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Clean Minimal API
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Template options

Terminal window
dotnet new cleanminimalapi --name <NAME> [--authorName <AUTHOR>] [--authority <URL>] [--audience <URL>] [--output <PATH>]
Option Default What it changes
--name, -n The current folder’s name Replaces CleanMinimalApi in every namespace, project, file and folder name, and names the output folder
--authorName Stephen Walsh Sets the Authors and Copyright of the Presentation project, so the assembly credits you instead of us
--authority empty Sets Authentication:Authority in appsettings.json. When it’s set, the API requires JWT bearer tokens issued by that server
--audience empty Sets Authentication:Audience in appsettings.json, the audience those tokens must be issued for
--output, -o A folder named after --name Where the solution is created

The usual dotnet new options such as --dry-run and --force work too. Run dotnet new cleanminimalapi --help for the full list.

Install, update and remove

Section titled “Install, update and remove”
Task Command
Install dotnet new install CleanMinimalApi.Template
Check for updates dotnet new update --check-only
Update dotnet new update
Remove dotnet new uninstall CleanMinimalApi.Template

New versions are published on the 1st of each month when something has changed. See the releases for what’s new.

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