Hi Seth

Make sure you have docker installed and running. It should just work with the CLI or visual studio.

The main thing probably to note (other than I haven't done much with the ASP settings) is the dev environment isn't working properly between the two. I assume it's running npm build then npm start. I got around this by changing the npm start in the package.json

    "start": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production remix-serve ./build/server/index.js",

The Remix instance is simply the latest with Vite and tailwind. There's a bunch of extra telemetry within the ASP project for the Node instance which could be interesting (I assume that's one of the big benefits of running Node within ASP).

There's no git ignore so it'll be a bit of a pain without a clean up.

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• dotnet-aspire page_type: sample name: ".NET Aspire Node.js App sample" urlFragment: "aspire-nodejs" description: "An example of how to integrate a Node.js app into a .NET Aspire app."

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Integrating a Node.js app within a .NET Aspire application

This sample demonstrates an approach for integrating a Node.js app into a .NET Aspire application.

The app consists of two services:

• NodeFrontend: This is a simple Express-based Node.js app that renders a table of weather forecasts retrieved from a backend API and utilizes a Redis cache.
• AspireWithNode.AspNetCoreApi: This is an HTTP API that returns randomly generated weather forecast data.

Pre-requisites

• .NET 8 SDK
• Docker Desktop
• Node.js - at least version 20.9.0
• Optional Visual Studio 2022 17.10

Running the app

If using Visual Studio, open the solution file AspireWithNode.sln and launch/debug the AspireWithNode.AppHost project.

If using the .NET CLI, run dotnet run from the AspireWithNode.AppHost directory.