# Creating a new WebSharper project from scratch

If you don't have the WebSharper project templates installed and need a basic, server-only setup to experiment with (the equivalent of the websharper-min project template), you can create it as follows:

Create an empty F# ASP.NET Core project
```
dotnet new web -lang f# -n HelloWorld
```

Add the WebSharper and WebSharper.AspNetCore packages to it:

dotnet add package WebSharper
dotnet add package WebSharper.AspNetCore

Add Site.fs to the project with the following content:

module Site

open WebSharper
open WebSharper.Sitelets

[<Website>]
let Main = Application.Text (fun ctx -> "Hello World!")

Modify Startup.fs as follows:

...
open WebSharper.AspNetCore

type Startup() =

    member this.ConfigureServices(services: IServiceCollection) =
        services.AddSitelet(Site.Main)
            .AddAuthentication("WebSharper")
            .AddCookie("WebSharper", fun options -> ())
        |> ignore

    member this.Configure(app: IApplicationBuilder, env: IWebHostEnvironment) =
        if env.IsDevelopment() then app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage() |> ignore

        app.UseAuthentication()
            .UseStaticFiles()
            .UseWebSharper()
            .Run(fun context ->
                context.Response.StatusCode <- 404
                context.Response.WriteAsync("Page not found"))

Add a WebSharper configuration file for future use:

{
  "$schema": "https://websharper.com/wsconfig.schema.json",
  "project": "site",
  "outputDir": "wwwroot"
}

Run the app with dotnet run.