In non-ASP.NET apps, default project path to current working directory. Fixes aspnet#1100.

Author: SteveSandersonMS

samples/misc/LatencyTest/Program.cs

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ public static void Main(string[] args) {
                 // Since .NET Core 1.1, the HTTP hosting model has become basically as fast as the Socket hosting model
                 //options.UseSocketHosting();
 
-                options.ProjectPath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
                 options.WatchFileExtensions = new string[] {}; // Don't watch anything
             });
             var serviceProvider = services.BuildServiceProvider();

src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.NodeServices/Configuration/NodeServicesOptions.cs

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
 using System.Threading;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.NodeServices.HostingModels;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
@@ -34,14 +35,18 @@ public NodeServicesOptions(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
             InvocationTimeoutMilliseconds = DefaultInvocationTimeoutMilliseconds;
             WatchFileExtensions = (string[])DefaultWatchFileExtensions.Clone();
 
-            // In an ASP.NET environment, we can use the IHostingEnvironment data to auto-populate a few
-            // things that you'd otherwise have to specify manually
             var hostEnv = serviceProvider.GetService<IHostingEnvironment>();
             if (hostEnv != null)
             {
+                // In an ASP.NET environment, we can use the IHostingEnvironment data to auto-populate a few
+                // things that you'd otherwise have to specify manually
                 ProjectPath = hostEnv.ContentRootPath;
                 EnvironmentVariables["NODE_ENV"] = hostEnv.IsDevelopment() ? "development" : "production"; // De-facto standard values for Node
             }
+            else
+            {
+                ProjectPath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
+            }
 
             var applicationLifetime = serviceProvider.GetService<IApplicationLifetime>();
             if (applicationLifetime != null)