Dotnet Razor Pages Movie App

RazorPagesMovie is a demo application that allows users to discover, manage, and track their favorite movies. It features an extensive movie database, personalized recommendations, watchlist management, and detailed movie information. The app is built with ASP.NET Core Razor Pages and demonstrates the use of modern web development practices.

Features

• ASP.NET Core: A cross-platform framework for building modern cloud-based applications.
• Razor Pages: A page-focused framework for building dynamic web applications.
• Entity Framework Core: An ORM for data access.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• .NET Core SDK (version 3.1 or later)
• SQL Server (local or remote)

Installation

1. Clone or fork the repository.
2. Restore dependencies.
3. Update the database.

Command examples:

To run a local dev MSSQL database in a docker container image:

# Start the MSSQL container
docker run -e 'ACCEPT_EULA=Y' -e 'SA_PASSWORD=YourStrong!Passw0rd' -p 1433:1433 --name sqlserver -d mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server

# Wait for the SQL Server to start
sleep 20

# Execute the SQL script to create the database
docker exec -i sqlserver /opt/mssql-tools18/bin/sqlcmd -S localhost -U sa -P 'YourStrong!Passw0rd' -Q "CREATE DATABASE RazorPagesMovieContext;"

Friendly Reminder: The command above is intended for local development and testing environments only. For production, it's highly recommended to use a managed SQL Server instance. If you're encountering SSL certificate verification errors and don't plan to use SSL, you can bypass this by adding the -C option to the sqlcmd command. This option tells the client to trust the server's certificate without validation.

dotnet commands to pull dependencies, build binaries and run database migrations:

dotnet restore RazorPagesMovie.csproj
dotnet build RazorPagesMovie.csproj
dotnet ef database update

Running the Application

To run the application, use the appropriate .NET Core commands. Example:

dotnet run

The application should be locally available at https://localhost:5001.

Project Structure

• Pages Folder: Contains Razor pages (.cshtml files) and their corresponding page models (.cshtml.cs files).
• wwwroot Folder: Static files like CSS, JavaScript, and images.
• Startup.cs: Configures the application, services, and request pipeline.
• Program.cs: Entry point for the application.

Dependencies

Since this is an ASP.NET Core project, the primary dependencies are:

• Microsoft.AspNetCore.App: This meta-package includes all the necessary packages for building ASP.NET Core applications.
• Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer: Package for using Entity Framework Core with SQL Server.

Source

This project is borrowed from this source example.

Language Composition

• C#: 60.2%
• HTML: 35.7%
• CSS: 3.5%
• JavaScript: 0.6%