.NET E-Commerce Reference Application - "Fresh Market"

A reference .NET application implementing an eCommerce web site using a clean architecture.

Features

• 🌐 Minimal Endpoints - because it's fast & simple. ⚡

• 🔑 Global Exception Handling - it's important to handle exceptions in a consistent way & protect sensitive information

• 📝 OpenAPI/Swagger - easily document your API

• 🗄️ Entity Framework Core - for data access

  • Comes with Migrations & Data Seeding

• 🧩 Repository Pattern - abstract EF Core away from your business logic

• 🔀 CQRS - for separation of concerns

• 📦 MediatR - for decoupling your application

• 📦 FluentValidation - for validating requests

• 🆔 Strongly Typed IDs - to combat primitive obsession

  • Entity Framework can automatically convert the int, Guid, nvarchar(..) to strongly typed ID.

• 🧪 Testing

  • Simpler Unit Tests for Application
  • Better Integration Tests
    • Integration Tests at Unit Test speed
    • Test Commands and Queries against a Real database

• Architecture Tests

  • The tests are automated so discovering the defects is fast

Getting Started

Use these instructions to get the project up and running.

Prerequisites

You will need the following tools:

• Visual Studio or VS Code, or Rider
• .NET 8 SDK

Setup

Follow these steps to get your development environment set up:

1. Clone the repository
2. At the root directory, restore required packages by running:

 dotnet restore

3. Next, build the solution by running:

dotnet build

5. Launch the back end within the \Src\WebApi directory by running:

dotnet run

6. Launch https://localhost:5001/api in your browser to view the API

Technologies

• .NET 8
• ASP.NET Core 8
• ASP.NET MVC
• Entity Framework Core 8

Other Packages

• MediatR
• FluentValidation
• Serilog
• OpenApi
• Swashbuckle