NetForge for VS Code

Scaffold a production-shaped ASP.NET Core 10 app — with a React 19 or Angular 22 frontend — in seconds, right from VS Code.

NetForge is an opinionated, AI-ready, beautiful-out-of-the-box starter for line-of-business apps — built to be extended by AI or by you. Its vertical-slice architecture and clear conventions let an AI assistant add a whole feature from a single prompt, and keep the result readable enough for you to review at a glance. This extension lets you create one without leaving the editor: pick an edition, frontend (React or Angular), database, theme, and accent colour, name it, and you're running.

NetForge dashboard

Global search DataGrid with filtering, sorting, export

Features

NetForge: New Project… — a guided wizard in the Command Palette (edition, frontend, database, theme, accent colour).
Community scaffolds locally with dotnet new — offline, instant, no sign-in. The extension installs the NetForge.Templates package the first time and checks your .NET SDK for you.
A NetForge view in the activity bar — a launch pad for new projects, the configurator, the live demo, and the docs.
A Pro showcase — see exactly what the Pro edition unlocks, with screenshots, without leaving VS Code.
A Get Started walkthrough that takes you from scaffold to running app.

Requirements

The .NET 10 SDK (for Community scaffolding & running).
Node.js is bundled into the workflow by the template; the server starts the React (or Angular) client for you.

Community vs Pro

	Community (free, MIT)	Pro
Auth, RBAC, admin, theming	✅	✅
Vertical-slice architecture, DataGrid, forms	✅	✅
Multi-tenancy, audit, dashboards	—	✅
Global search, notifications, webhooks	—	✅
2FA/OAuth/sessions, uploads, export/import, jobs	—	✅
PWA, tour, changelog, Sales demo domain	—	✅

The Community edition is scaffolded locally and is free forever under the MIT license. Pro is generated from the configurator after you sign in and get a Pro plan. Prefer not to build it by hand? Describe your app in plain language and AI builds it for you — with a real senior developer backing every build. Configure it or let AI build it; either way you download a standard app you fully own, with no lock-in.

Getting started

Run NetForge: New Project… from the Command Palette (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P).
Choose Community, pick your database / theme / accent colour, name your app, and pick a folder.
Open the project and run dotnet run --project NetForge.Server — that single command starts both the API and the React client.

License

The extension is MIT-licensed. The Community template it scaffolds is MIT; the Pro edition is commercially licensed.

NetForge — ASP.NET Core + React / Angular Starter

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