🚗 Rent A Car Project

Car rental application — a classic CRUD system. This platform enables efficient, secure, and fast vehicle rental management. You can monitor all active rentals, add new vehicles to the fleet, and register customers with ease.

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📅 Changelog

• 14/02/2025: Initial release — Backend, Frontend, and Database.
• 26/02/2025:
  • Backend: API refactored to follow RESTful conventions, ensuring route correctness and pluralization.
  • Frontend: URL invocation fixes.
• 05/04/2025:
  • Backend: Added User entity and login module. Also added Users and Roles tables, including full DDL scripts for all entities.
  • Frontend: Implemented localStorage to persist user session data. Improved UI styling and cleaned up code. Added component testing using ng test (Karma/Jasmine) — several fixes were made thanks to this.
  • Used Angular Material for message popups.
  • Added Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD).

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🎯 Objective

To practice building a full-stack application using .NET (C#), SQL, and Angular (TypeScript), incorporating design patterns and Onion Architecture. The system connects to a SQLite database via Entity Framework and uses Docker and DBeaver for environment setup and management.

Technologies:

• .NET (C#) and SQL Server
• Angular (TypeScript)
• Design Patterns
• Onion Architecture

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🚀 Features

🔧 Backend

• Structured around Onion Architecture
• Implements several Design Patterns:
  • BaseEntity
  • UnitOfWork
  • Repository
  • DTO (Data Transfer Object)
• Key Libraries:
  • Encryption:
    • System.Security.Cryptography (AES-256)
  • Logging:
    • Serilog
    • Serilog.Extensions.Logging
    • Serilog.Sinks.File
  • ORM:
    • Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer
    • Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools

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💻 Frontend

• Built with Angular 18.2.14
• Features:
  • Reactive Forms
  • AuthService and HTTP Interceptors
  • Custom Pipes and Shared Modules
  • Angular Material for UI components and popups
  • Unit testing with Karma and Jasmine (ng test)

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🗄️ Database

• Uses MariaDB, deployed via Docker Desktop
• Includes:
  • Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD)
  • Sample data insertion scripts (.sql)
  • DDL scripts (for schema creation)
  • DML scripts (for sample data insertion)

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🧪 Installation

✅ Prerequisites

Make sure the following tools are installed on your machine:

• .NET SDK 9.0.200
• Docker Desktop 4.40.0+
• Node.js + npm (for the frontend)
• Postman 11.44.3

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🔧 Setup Steps

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/waltermillan/RentACar.git

2. Follow the setup video guide (coming soon):

   • Version 1 - Display Version

3. Complete the remaining setup steps as described in the project documentation.

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.