PipeR.Core 0.0.4-ci

PipeR.Core

PipeR Intro

PipeR is a fast, modern, and fully open-source pipeline engine for .NET - designed as a drop-in alternative to commercialized middleware and mediator frameworks. Born out of necessity, PipeR fills the growing gap left by libraries that have shifted behind paywalls or restrictive licensing. Instead of locking critical infrastructure behind subscriptions, PipeR gives developers a lightweight, high-performance pipeline model that is free to use in development and production, with no limits.

PipeR focuses on:

• Performance-first design - minimal allocations, low overhead, and lean abstractions.
• Predictable architecture - request/response pipelines, valves (middleware), and handlers that feel familiar yet faster.
• Flexibility without bloat � simple enough for small projects, powerful enough for enterprise workloads.
• Full OSS freedom � MIT licensed, transparent, community-driven.

Whether you use PipeR.Core in your backend services or PipeR.Extensions.AspNetCore for effortless request pipelines in web APIs, the goal is the same: a modern pipeline framework that stays open, fast, and in your control.

PipeR.Core

PipeR is a lightweight, bare-bones, publicly available alternative to other mediator frameworks. PipeR.Core contains the core, framework-agnostic implementation of the in-process mediator used across the repository.

What it is

• A minimal mediator implementation for sending requests and publishing notifications within a single process.
• Designed to be small, easy to understand and to integrate into vanilla .NET applications without extra runtime dependencies.

Key scenarios

• Request/response handling (in-process commands/queries)
• Notification/event publishing to zero-or-more handlers
• Easy dependency injection registration and handler discovery

Supported frameworks

• .NET 9 (.NET 9.0)
• .NET 8 (.NET 8.0)

Quick build

• Build: dotnet build (from repo root) or dotnet build ./PipeR.Core/
• Test: dotnet test (if this project or solution contains tests)
• Pack (create NuGet): dotnet pack ./PipeR.Core/ -c Release

Getting started

• Add a project reference: dotnet add <YourProject> reference ./PipeR.Core/PipeR.Core.csproj
• Register the core services in your dependency injection container and inject the mediator into your classes. Use the mediator to send requests or publish notifications from application code.

Examples and API details

• See the source code for concrete types and examples. If you want a short usage snippet or starter example added here, tell me which APIs you prefer and I will add it.

Contributing and license

• See the repository root for CONTRIBUTING.md and LICENSE.