The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET

Table of Contents

• Description
• Features
• Example
• Continuous Integration
• Users
• Sponsors
• Technology Sponsors

Description

NUKE is the most intuitive and productive build automation system for C#/.NET that runs cross-platform on .NET Core, .NET Framework, and Mono. While builds are bootstrapped with conventional Bash or PowerShell scripts, their actual implementation resides in simple C# console applications. This approach unleashes the power of the type system and natively provides IDE features like code-completion, refactorings, and debugging. A custom global tool and several IDE extensions further improve how build projects are setup, authored and executed. A revolutionary code-generation approach ensures scalable integration of third-party tools like MSBuild or dotnet CLI.

For more information checkout the resources and FAQ sections.

Features

Here is a short list of some most-loved features:

• 🎲 Easy to adopt in a team
• 🧠 Comfortable to run
• 🔥 Powerful dependency model
• 📥 Parameter declarations
• 👾 Extensive tools support
• ⚙️ Deep CI integration
• 🍀 Build sharing options
• 🗂 Project model support
• 💾 Abstraction of OS paths
• 🧩 Extensibility points
• 🔌 IDE extensions
• 📝 Logging and assertions
• ❤️ Backed by community

Example

Continuous Integration

NUKE builds and tests itself on several different CI servers, which helps ensuring a working integration with those systems. At the same time, the individual configuration files serve as example for the generation experience:

Build Server	Status	Platform	Configuration
TeamCity		Win	settings.kts
GitHub Actions		Win / Ubuntu / MacOS	continuous.yml
GitLab CI		Ubuntu	.gitlab-ci.yml
Azure Pipelines		Win / Linux / MacOS	azure-pipelines.yml
AppVeyor		Win / Ubuntu	appveyor.yml

Users

• ASP.NET Boilerplate ¹
• AvaloniaUI ¹
• Aviva Solutions Inc. ^{1 2}
• ChilliCream ¹
• CvsHelper ¹
• DNN Community ¹
• FluentAssertions ¹
• JetBrains s.r.o. ^{1 2}
• Octopus Deploy Pty. Ltd. ^{1 2 3}
• OmniSharp ¹
• VirtoCommerce ¹

Sponsors

Thanks to all companies, organizations, and individuals who are sponsoring the further development of this project. Your support means a lot! 💙

Technology Sponsors

Thanks to JetBrains for providing licenses for Rider and access to a TeamCity Cloud instance, which both make open-source development a real pleasure!