Installing

Make sure .Net SDK is available

Swytch a .NET C# Web framework, hence to use it you'll need the .NET SDK installed on your machine. If you don't, you can download and install it from the official .NET website.

Once installed, verify the installation by running

 dotnet --version

Create A Project

The foundation of a swytch app is nothing but a console application. So we shall create a simple boring console app and then supercharge it with all the amazing features Swytch has to offer.

Note that Swytch has starter templates that can be used to quickly bootstrap a project and get up and running quickly. We shall later take a look at that under the Swytch templates section but for now let's set up everything from the ground up to have a better perspective into what makes a Swytch application.

First create a console application like you always do

dotnet new console -n MyFistSwytchApp
cd MyFirstSwytchApp

Inside the MyFirstSwytchApp directory, you can optionally rename the Program.cs file to Server.cs In Swytch, this will be the entry point of your application. This is just a convention for consistency, and you can name the file however you like. However throughout this documentation, this covention will be used and whenever you see Server.cs you should know that this is just the entry point of your application just like the Program.cs file you're used to.

Adding Nuget Package

You can easily add Swytch to your project using the Nuget package.

 dotnet add package Swytch 

or maybe a specific version with

 dotnet add package Swytch --Version <number>

alternatively you can add the package reference to your project's .csproj file

<PackageReference Include="Swytch" />

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