Using dotnet new templates to streamline microservices development

When working on a project consisting of numerous microservices, you often find that each service shares a part of “common” code. This becomes a burdensome copy-paste activity when you have to add one more microservice. There are a number of straightforward and not-so-clean solutions to this problem (i.e. copying from a microservice of a colleague who read “Clean Code” and/or maintains an exemplary service). In this post, however, I’d like to explore another option suitable for dotnet core developers: dotnet new templates.