Installing multiple packages via Nuget by single command

Question

I am using Nuget via Visual Studio's Package Manager Console. For every project I need to add few packages e.g. xunit.contribs, fluentassertions and nsubstitute. To do that I type 3 commands in consolle.

I understand that console is just another powershell host and there should be a way to create a script (kind of Add-Test-Stuff.ps1) that will add several packages at once. What is the best way to do that?

Answer 1

I typically define my packages in arrays and execute them using a foreach loop

$angular = "AngularJS.Animate", "AngularJS.Core", "AngularJS.Locale", "AngularJS.Resource", "AngularJS.Route", "AngularJS.Sanitize", "AngularJS.Touch"
$angular | foreach {Install-Package $_} 

This can also be written as a one-liner

"AngularJS.Animate", "AngularJS.Core", "AngularJS.Locale", "AngularJS.Resource", "AngularJS.Route", "AngularJS.Sanitize", "AngularJS.Touch" | foreach {Install-Package $_}