Search for .NET Core or Standard NuGet packages

Question

I'm using Visual Studio Code on Mac OS X to develop .NET Core web APIs. I already understand that adding NuGet references is done manually in the project.json file.

However, I'm not quite sure how to search NuGet for .NET Core specific libraries. The Mac OS X tutorial in the .NET Core documentation only instructs the developer to add project dependencies, and it doesn't go into detail about how the developer would know / discover the dependency names.

Is there a way to search NuGet specifically for .NET Core libraries, and/or libraries that are compatible with .NET Standard ? I would like to use the Mac OS X terminal or even VSCode to do this. However, any solution would be a great starting point.

ps. I did come across Reverse Package Search , but I have no idea who created it, how up-to-date it is, and if it will be available six months from now.

Answer 1

Right now (as of January 2017), there's no easy way to search unfortunately. It's an open issue on the NuGet Github project.

The closest you can get right now is to look at the package dependencies after you find it (see my answer here ). That doesn't help you find it in the first place, though. It's currently a manual "educated guess" process.