.NET Core CLI allows you to interact with the .NET Core runtime as well as manage your .NET Core solutions and projects (read more here)
The following is a brief overview of some of the more important and most likely daily commands that you want to be familiar with.
Display a list of all solution and project templates that are available to generate a new solution or project.
dotnet new --list
dotnet restore
more on restoring dependencies
# Basic invocation
dotnet sln new --name [name-of-solution] --output [path-to-new-solution]
# Example:
dotnet new sln --name NeverendingTeaShop --output NeverendingTeaShop/
# Basic invocation
dotnet new [template] --name [name-of-project] --output [path-to-new-project]
# Example:
dotnet new webapi --name NeverendingTeaShop.API --output ./src/NeverendingTeaShop.API
dotnet new xunit --name NeverendingTeaShop.API.Tests --output ./tests/NeverendingTeaShop.API.Tests
# Basic invocation
dotnet run [path-to-csproj]
# Example
dotnet run NeverendingTeaShop/src/NeverendingTeaShop.API
# Watch a running application locally
dotnet watch run
# Watch tests
dotnet watch test
An example of adding Serilog nuget to a project
# If inside the project directory
dotnet add package Serilog
# If in root directory of a multi-project solution
dotnet add <path-to-project> package Serilog