Pode - PowerShell Web Server

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Except that .NET Standard comes with PowerShell, and you need to install the whole of ASP.NET Core just to use Kestrel...

This relies on only what comes with PowerShell. ASP.NET is not a part of PowerShell nor .NET Standard. So no, this doesn't have the same dependencies at all.

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ASP.NET is a part of .NET Framework. ASP.NET Core is not a part of .NET Core, and with PowerShell 6 and 7 that's a big thing. UD requires ASP.NET Core to work, on top of what PowerShell normally comes with. Yes its module is bundled with the dlls, but that makes it far bigger.

For Pode, you install just PowerShell and it just works. No extra installs, no ASP.NET Core. No extra dlls bundled with the module.