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DP001
DP001

Reputation: 411

Which is the real ASP.NET Boilerplate project?

Might be a dumb question for many but we are thinking of adopting ASP.NET Boilerplate for our next project. Just a bit confused as there seems to be 2 different websites for it and 2 different Git repositories.

First one is https://aspnetboilerplate.com/
and second is https://abp.io/.

Both have their own Git repositories and Stack Overflow tag. I'm totally confused as to which one is the most correct project to use.

Any guidance is much appreciated.

Many thanks.

Upvotes: 28

Views: 11764

Answers (4)

Harrison Wu
Harrison Wu

Reputation: 472

ABP Framework is the successor of the open source ASP.NET Boilerplate framework. This guide aims to help you to migrate your existing solutions (you developed with the ASP.NET Boilerplate framework) to the ABP Framework.

ASP.NET Boilerplate is being actively developed since 2013. It is loved, used and contributed by the community. It started as a side project of a developer, but now it is officially maintained and improved by the company Volosoft in addition to the great community support.

ABP Framework has the same goal of the ASP.NET Boilerplate framework: Don't Repeat Yourself! It provides infrastructure, tools and startup templates to make a developer's life easier while developing enterprise software solutions.

See the introduction blog post if you wonder why we needed to re-write the ASP.NET Boilerplate framework. https://blog.abp.io/abp/Abp-vNext-Announcement

Upvotes: 0

Ognyan Dimitrov
Ognyan Dimitrov

Reputation: 6273

One aspect not mentioned by the answers are the licenses:

ABP.IO is LGPL

AspNetBoilerplate is MIT

This should be considered when you think about how do you market/sell the product you want to build on top.

Upvotes: 1

Alper Ebicoglu
Alper Ebicoglu

Reputation: 9634

If we'd think it's Angular;

  • ASP.NET Boilerplate = AngularJS
  • ABP.IO = Angular (the new)

Upvotes: -9

aaron
aaron

Reputation: 43098

ABP Framework (abp.io) is a rewrite and the next version of ASP.NET Boilerplate (aspnetboilerplate.com) based on lessons learned and with less backward compatibility to maintain.

Both are actively maintained.

ASP.NET Boilerplate

  • mature framework, since February 2014
  • current version: v6.0, released November 2020
  • has commercial base solution ASP.NET Zero (aspnetzero.com)

Tech

  • monolith architecture, but supports modules
  • supports ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET MVC 5
  • supports EF Core and EF 6

ABP Framework

  • modern framework, since June 2018
  • current version: 4.0.1, released December 2020
  • also has an extended commercial edition (commercial.abp.io)

Tech

  • microservices architecture
  • supports ASP.NET Core only
  • supports EF Core and MongoDB

Upvotes: 48

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