Getting Started

Shiny.AspNet is a set of independent libraries for ASP.NET Core. Each one is a single package you add to an existing app, registered the ASP.NET way — builder.Services.Add…(), app.Map…() or app.Use…() — and every Map… returns an IEndpointConventionBuilder, so RequireAuthorization, RequireCors, RequireRateLimiting and the rest of ASP.NET’s own conventions apply to everything a library maps.

They are ports of the Shiny HTTP Server add-ons, re-hosted on Kestrel. All of them are trim and Native AOT clean.

GitHub

Frameworks

ASP.NET

Packages

Package	Description
	Modular startup with IWebModule
	WebDAV class 1 & 2 — mount a directory in Finder, Explorer or any WebDAV client
	CalDAV & CardDAV — serve calendars and contacts to Apple, Thunderbird and DAVx⁵
	Resumable uploads over tus 1.0.0
	Dropbox-style file sync with content-defined chunking
	A private NuGet feed — the V3 protocol, push, unlist and search
	A private npm registry for npm, pnpm and Yarn
	REST + live SSE endpoints for a Shiny.DocumentDb document type
	RFC 6902 JSON Patch on System.Text.Json, with minimal-API binding
	Webhook verification and signing — GitHub, Stripe, Slack, Standard Webhooks
	Idempotency-Key middleware — replay the original response to a retried POST
	RFC 9530 Content-Digest verification and emission
	Automatic TLS from Let’s Encrypt or any ACME CA, hot-swapped into Kestrel
	mDNS / DNS-SD advertising of the app on the local network
	SSH remote forwarding, including zero-account quick tunnels
	cloudflared, ngrok and Tailscale agents, supervised

Coming from Shiny HTTP Server

The protocol code, stores and options are the same; what changes is how a library attaches to the server:

• server.MapX(...) becomes app.MapX(...) on any IEndpointRouteBuilder, including route groups, and returns an ASP.NET convention builder. The httpserver-only wrappers (RequireIpFilter, AllowAnyIp) are gone — use ASP.NET’s middleware for those.
• Request handlers take Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.HttpContext; store and hook delegates keep their shapes.
• Anything that followed the HttpServer lifecycle follows the ASP.NET host instead — tunnels, discovery and certificate renewal start once Kestrel is listening.

AI Coding Assistant

Claude CodeGitHub Copilot

Step 1 — Add the marketplace:

claude plugin marketplace add shinyorg/skills

Step 2 — Install the plugin:

claude plugin install shiny@shiny

One plugin installs all 48 Shiny skills. Your agent loads only the skill relevant to what you're building, so there's no cost to having them all available.

Step 1 — Add the marketplace:

copilot plugin marketplace add https://github.com/shinyorg/skills

Step 2 — Install the plugin:

copilot plugin install shiny@shiny

One plugin installs all 48 Shiny skills. Your agent loads only the skill relevant to what you're building, so there's no cost to having them all available.

View shiny-aspnet Skill