This project demonstrates how to run Kestrel without ASP.NET. It creates a web endpoint on http://localhost:8080 which responds to all requests with "hello world".

It also demonstrates how to add the websocket middleware. If you connect to ws://localhost:8080 (with wscat, for example) it will again respond with "hello world". This time it will be sent as a textual websocket message.

I wrote this code because I was curious to see if it could be done, but it may be interesting for someone. It uses significantly less memory than ASP.NET.

In July 2022, GitHub notified me of vulnerabilities in this repository's dependencies. I accepted their automated patches, but I no longer have .NET Core 2.1 installed, so it's difficult to test the result. Hopefully it will still work, but you may encounter difficulties.

.NET Core 2.1 reached end of life in August 2021. Because of this, you should not expect to be able to create secure applications based on this repository.