Test-Driving a NuGet package for MVC

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When I’m working on my MVC sites, I often find myself wanting features that don’t come out of the box.

When I know I want a feature, my thought process tells me to:

  1. Search on Google/MSDN/StackOverflow to see if the feature is built into MVC
  2. Search on nuget.org for a NuGet package that has the feature
  3. Search on GitHub/Codeplex/Google Code for a project that has the feature
  4. Can’t find it anywhere? I guess it’s time to make it!

In this episode, we take a simple feature that I wish MVC had and implement it.

Before we start coding, we actually look for a matching library! I found one that’s close to what I want but, unfortunately, the author didn’t make his source control available so we had no way of easily contributing changes :(

After our tests are passing and the feature is implemented, we turn it into a NuGet package and publish it!

NOTE We do this on Linux using Mono. Clide is used to create our project. MooGet is used for NuGet support on Linux.

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