Extending .NET CLI with custom tools - dotnet init initializes your NuGet package
A few weeks back, .NET Core 1.1 was released (and a boatload of related tools such as Visual Studio 2017. For .NET Core projects, a big breaking change was introduced: the project format is no longer project.json but good old .csproj. That’s a little bit of a lie: the .csproj is actually an entirely new, simplified format that combines the best of the old .csproj and project.json and works with .NET Standard and .NET Core.