nuke-build/nuke

NUKE is a build automation system for .NET and C# projects. Build automation means writing code that controls how a software project gets compiled, tested, packaged, and deployed, rather than doing those steps by hand each time. Most build systems make developers write their automation logic in YAML files or shell scripts, which do not come with code completion, easy debugging, or the other tools C# developers are used to. NUKE lets you write that same automation in C# instead, as a regular console application. Because a NUKE build script is just C# code, developers can use their normal IDE features: autocomplete, refactoring tools, type checking, and step-by-step debugging. The build is organized into named targets, which are individual steps like compiling, running tests, or publishing a package. You can declare which targets depend on others, and NUKE figures out the correct order to run them. Parameters can be injected from environment variables, command-line arguments, or CI/CD system variables, all through the same mechanism. One feature the README highlights is CI/CD configuration generation. Rather than maintaining separate YAML files for GitHub Actions, TeamCity, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines, and other services, NUKE can generate those files automatically from the C# build definition. This means you write the logic once and the configuration for each platform is produced from it, reducing the chance of inconsistencies between platforms. NUKE also handles some common practical problems in .NET builds: abstracting path separator differences between Windows and Linux, giving access to .NET solution and project file data from within the build script, and supporting shared build components that can be reused across multiple repositories. The project is open source under the MIT license and available as a NuGet package. It has active community channels on Slack and Discord.