The instructions to install and run the Client and Service applications are within the respective 'client' and 'services' folders. The application can be used by running the services in the Visual Studio debugger and the Angular Dev server.
- ASP.NET Core 2.2.
- EF Core.
- OpenID using IdentityServer4. This is a configured template [https://www.nuget.org/packages/IdentityServer4.Templates/] adapted to include additional Claims and IProfile service. On the client side oicd-client is used for implicit flow in Angular.
- Angular 7.
- NSwag studio used to generate Angular Typscript client for the API.
- Boostrap, to avoid dependency on jQuery ng-bootstrap widgets have been used.
Being a demo, a number of aspects of the implementation are obviously neither complete or production ready. Only example validation has been added to the Angular Client and API (FluentValidation), image upload has not been included and config is mainly hard coded. Furthermore, the approach taken is not the most optimal in terms of speed for the excercise e.g. I could have scaffolded an MVC App but I wanted to demonstrate an understanding of modern web applications.
Token coverage has been added for the controllers to provide an idea of test approach using xUnit, Moq, and AutoFixture.
I cloned the repo on a 10 year old laptop to verify the steps provided. Laptop performance aside the only issues I encountered were with the LocalDB connection string. The migrations applied fine but the connection failed when running the application. To resolve run 'SELECT @@SERVERNAME' against the database server and update the connection strings.
Two users have been set up:
- Bob (username: bob, password: Pass123$). Bob is in admin and can publish, edit and delete articles
- Alice (alice, password: Pass123$). Alice is an employee and can rate and comment on articles.