libraryWebAPI

How to use it:

FRONTEND

Run the following( after cloning and assuming you have not moved into the frontend dir.):

cd .\frontend\ (  just press shift as u start typing f.. )

npm i (to install the required dependencies)

npm start (to run the app)

BACKEND

cd .\backend\ 

dotnet restore

dotnet run 

DB

In this project I have used the MS SQL. Should you be using another db, all you have to do is change the connection string in the Program.cs file.

dotnet ef database update 

Users

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Users are stored in two tables in backend, User table and Authors table. The first page we see when opening the webapp, is the login page. Since there is no user, I would suggest (strongly recommended) using Swagger to add the user,which should have the role of Admin. [The admin (and any other entitiy) can be added straight from the db.]

Every user added by the admin will have username: name+name, password: "hello"+name .

Access swagger: localhost:5006/swagger

This user will be later used to logIn and add other authors from the UI.

DESICLAIMERS:

• a wwwroot/images folder must be created, I did not upload mine, since it contains images already, so I specified in the gitignore.
• I am aware that there is a discrepancy between the styling used in the book_add_update component and the styling used in the rest of the app. This is because, I am used to Bootstrap for projects which I do not know the framework beforehand. As I got the hang of it, I used MUI more and more.
• I have not hashed the password
• Everything can be CRUD-ed, except the image, we can upload the image to the server, and also retrieve it , but I could not change the image inside the PUT request.
• the controllers are automatically generated using dotnet aspnet-codegenerator, (hence not all of them are used), and also I have added some middleware for the PATCH which I do not completely understand. PATCH wasnt used either.
• when using the dotnet cli to create the project I used the --no-https option
• I did not implement testing , or even deployement.

To develop the program I used VSCode IDE (tmi).

I used React(latest version in my knowledge) and .net 6.