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Over the holidays and early January I had some fun with Claude Code and made some big changes to NuGet Trends — including resolving years-old tickets along the way. TL;DR Target Framework Adoption — see how many NuGet packages target each framework version over time. Trending This Week — discover packages gaining momentum right now. Dark mode — system, light, and dark themes. Blazor rewrite — the Angular frontend was replaced with Blazor (SSR + WebAssembly). New charting — Blazor-ApexCharts replaced Chart.js. ClickHouse — download data moved from PostgreSQL to ClickHouse. Blazing fast, again. Aspire — local development orchestration replaced docker-compose. The project is open source under dotnet/nuget-trends and we’d love contributions. ...

Summary You might unknowingly be using an unoptimized dependency which could impact the performance of your app. Now, it’s easy to get a warning if that happens, at build time, using the NuGet package UnoptimizedAssemblyDetector: <PackageReference Include="UnoptimizedAssemblyDetector" Version="0.1.0"> <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets> </PackageReference> After you add this NuGet package, a warning will be included in your build if any unoptimized assembly is detected. The source code of project is hosted on GitHub ⭐. What’s the pitfall? The default build configuration for dotnet pack and dotnet publish is not Release as you might assume or expect. When publishing NuGet packages to nuget.org, one must explicitly make it a release package, like: dotnet pack -c Release. Without it, the assemblies packed will not be compiled with optimizations. In this blog post you’ll learn that’s not always the case. Even for those who know, accidents happens and a misconfigured build script can result in a Debug build ending up on nuget.org. ...

I joined sentry.io just over a year ago. Soon after I started, I was tasked with writing a new .NET SDK for Sentry. Throughout the previews, I was always curious if the releases were being downloaded at all. I found myself checking nuget.org and looking at the Statistics for total downloads. It was obvious we in the .NET ecosystem were missing some package download stats website. Welcome NuGet Trends, to the .NET community! NuGet Trends is a website with historical total download count for NuGet packages on nuget.org. ...