microsoft / microsoft/winappCli
Node projects can use the WinAppCli to manage nuget dependencies
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
If I have a Node-based project that's already using WinAppCli and I want to reference a nuget package, it would be nice if I could use the WinAppCli to do this. We already have the winapp.yaml file that specifies our package versions, so it seems like this may be in-scope already.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
I'm not sure the best way. Maybe a winapp command could return a JSON blob of the
``` pwsh
# Restore nuget pacakges (already exists)
npx winapp restore
# Returns JSON containing the path for each nuget package in winapp.yaml
$result = ConvertFrom-Json(npx winapp get-nuget-package-paths)
$cppWinrtPath = $result["Microsoft.Windows.CppWinRT"]
# $cppWinrtPath is now "C:\Users\jecollin\.winapp\packages\Microsoft.Windows.CppWinRT.2.0.250303.1"
```
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Research direction
Start with the existing `npx winapp restore` command and the `winapp.yaml` package-version handling described in the issue. Define and verify a command that returns each restored NuGet package path as JSON, including the example `Microsoft.Windows.CppWinRT` lookup.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- node.js
- Domain
- build-system, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100