Dotnet-Core-Attendance-System

Attendance Web Application using .NET Core (CQRS pattern) & Vue.js

Prerequisite

1. Install .Net Core 2.2 SDK https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download
2. Install Node.js https://nodejs.org/en/download/
3. Any relational database provider. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/providers/
   • Create your database and configure the connection string in appsettings.json
   • Update DbContext option in Startup.cs (Skip these if you're using MSSQL)

Build

# Restore packages
dotnet restore

# Install Cake global
dotnet tool install -g Cake.Tool

# Run build.cake
# - this task will build Api & Test .net core project
# and install packages in Vue client
dotnet-cake build.cake

Run

• Api project

cd .\src\Api\

# Run 
dotnet run

# or Run with file watcher
dotnet watch run

• Vue client
  • Use login: admin and password: 123456

cd .\src\Client\

# Start dev w/ hot module replacement
npm run serve

• Integration Tests

cd .\tests\Api\

# Run tests 
dotnet test

# or Run with file watcher
dotnet watch test

Local Publish

# Publish .net core api and vue in `/dist` folder
dotnet-cake build.cake --task="Publish"

Features

• Fully separated Backend and Frontend
• Swagger for api documentation (URL: http://localhost:5000/swagger/index.html)
• CQRS Pattern (Command Query Responsibility Segregation)
• Authentication based on Identity Framework & JWT Bearer
• Integration Tests with XUnit
• Material design
• Realtime update on employee logs
• 

Includes

• .NET Core open-source general-purpose development platform maintained by Microsoft.
• MediatR Simple, unambitious mediator implementation in .NET
• Vue.js The Progressive JavaScript Framework.
• Vuetify Material design component framework for Vue.js.

Online Resources

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core
• https://vuejs.org/
• https://vuetifyjs.com
• https://github.com/gothinkster/aspnetcore-realworld-example-app
• https://medium.com/@ozgurgul/asp-net-core-2-0-webapi-jwt-authentication-with-identity-mysql-3698eeba6ff8