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Thanks @natemcmaster! This is a big improvement and is now merged.

I did edit the commit a little when merging. I reverted the changes to the templates projects .csproj files (e.g, Angular2Spa, ReactSpa, etc.). That's because those aren't just regular .NET projects - they are the input to the system that builds Yeoman and dotnet new templates. As given, the tokenised values (e.g., $(AspNetCoreVersion) would have ended up in the template packages, which then would have generated projects that can't compile (because the dependencies.props file wouldn't be there). Also there's an argument that the dependency versions we use in the templates don't need to be the same as we use elsewhere, and we need to make separate decisions about when to change those dependency versions. So overall I think it's preferable to continue specifying those versions explicitly and independently. Hope that's OK!

Ah, thanks for clarifying. I wasn't 100% sure that the template projects were for. Thanks for cleaning it up 👍