No PCL option for Xamarin project

Question

I am just entering into the development of applications based on Xamarin Forms, and most of the articles (if not all) that I came across suggest creating a new Xamarin Forms project using the Portable Class Library (PCL) method.

I am running the latest version of Visual Studio 2017 15.5.1, and when I start a new Xamarin Forms project, I get the following screen without the PCL option.

Did I miss something?

Answer 1

You can choose the standard .Net. This is a replacement for PCL.

NET Standard is a formal specification of the .NET APIs that should be available in all .NET environments (e.g. .NET Framework, Mono, and .NET Core)

. https://blog.xamarin.com/building-xamarin-forms-apps-net-standard/