Description
Problem
We currently have a task as part of our build pipeline that re-writes the .nuspecs of locally produced packages to remove dependencies that get included in the shared framework. This runs as the last step end of the build, after tests have completed.
We also have Blazor Playwright tests that generate projects from the Blazor Web project templates and run them against the locally built shared framework. Since these tests run before the .nuspec re-write, the templates fail to restore because some transient dependencies of packages they reference don't exist (they're included in the shared framework).
Proposal
We should consider changing the .nuspec re-write to occur before tests are run so that generated projects can reference locally built packages which depend on the locally built shared framework.
What this enables
The Playwright template tests are currently still able to run in Helix, because local artifacts are already produced and laid out correctly by the time the tests run. However, this fix would enable non-Helix pipelines to run the template tests (like the Windows Server x64 pipeline).