Feature suggestion: create dotnet new project templates for SpecFlow Projects

[david1995]

This is basically the same as #1575, but is intended for dotnet new tooling support instead of Visual Studio.

At the moment, creating a SpecFlow project is more complicated than it could be. You have to create a class library or unit test project in Visual Studio, and add required SpecFlow packages manually to the project.

To improve UX for creating SpecFlow projects without Visual Studio, the following SpecFlow project templates should be created for use with dotnet new:

• [ ] net472 - xUnit
• [ ] net472 - NUnit
• [ ] net472 - MSTest
• [ ] net472 - SpecFlow+ Runner
• [ ] netcoreapp2.2 - xUnit
• [ ] netcoreapp2.2 - NUnit
• [ ] netcoreapp2.2 - MSTest
• [ ] netcoreapp2.2 - SpecFlow+ Runner

All project templates should follow these principles:

• SDK-style project format must be used
• .feature files are to be placed in a subfolder Features
• C# / VB Step definition files are to be placed in a subfolder Steps
• A Drivers subfolder is to be created
• A Hooks subfolder is to be created
• For code-behind generation, use the SpecFlow.Tools.MsBuild.Generation package
• SpecFlowSingleFileGenerator must not be set as Custom Tool on any .feature file
• Add a .gitignore file to the project root folder which excludes .feature.cs files
• No app.config, specflow.json or default.srprofile files are to be added by default
• All SpecFlow / SpecFlow+ Runner packages should use the (at time of creation) latest public stable version

In summary, these are the packages that should be referenced in the templates:

• SpecFlow
• SpecFlow.Tools.MsBuild.Generation
• SpecFlow.XUnit, SpecFlow.NUnit, SpecFlow.MsTest or SpecRun.SpecFlow-3-0-0, depending on unit test provider
• Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk, version 15.0.0
• Unit test provider specific packages, e.g. xUnit.Runner.VisualStudio for xUnit

[SabotageAndi]

Docs are here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tutorials/create-custom-template

[david1995]

In addition to the aforementioned project templates, these item templates should be created too:

• default.srprofile: template name specflow-plus-profile
• feature file: template name specflow-feature
• specflow.json: template name specflow-json

[broteinheit]

I'd like to do that

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