Getting started

Create your web application with the following command. If you already have an app using ASP.NET Core 6+ Razor Pages / MVC project, you can skip this step.

dotnet new webapp -o MyApp
cd MyApp

Install Hydro NuGet package:

dotnet add package Hydro

In application's startup code (either Program.cs or Startup.cs) add:

builder.Services.AddHydro();

...

app.UseHydro();

NOTE: Make sure that UseHydro is called after UseStaticFiles and UseRouting, which are required.

Sample Program.cs file:

using Hydro.Configuration;

var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

builder.Services.AddRazorPages();
builder.Services.AddHydro(); // Hydro

var app = builder.Build();

app.UseStaticFiles();
app.UseRouting();
app.MapRazorPages();
app.UseHydro(); // Hydro

app.Run();

In _ViewImports.cshtml add:

@addTagHelper *, Hydro
@addTagHelper *, {Your project assembly name}

In layout's head tag:

<meta name="hydro-config" />
<script defer src="~/hydro/hydro.js" asp-append-version="true"></script>
<script defer src="~/hydro/alpine.js" asp-append-version="true"></script>

NOTE: Hydro provides Alpine.js v3.14.3 with extensions combined into one file (~/hydro/alpine.js) for convenience. If you don't want to rely on the scripts provided by Hydro, you can manually specify Alpine.js sources. Make sure to include Alpine.js core script and Morph plugin.

Now you are ready to create you first component.