leaderboard-backend

An open-source community-driven leaderboard backend for the upcoming leaderboards.gg. Uses ASP.NET Core. The original backend, written in Go and inactive, can be found here.

Links

• Website: https://leaderboards.gg
• Other Repos: https://github.com/leaderboardsgg
• Discord: https://discord.gg/TZvfau25Vb

Tech-Stack Information

• JSON REST API intended for the leaderboards.gg site
• C# with ASP.NET Core, .NET 7
• Docker containers for PostgreSQL hosting and management run via Docker Compose, and also for integration tests with Testcontainers

Project Setup

Setting up Environment

Firstly, set core.filemode false in your git config, either by running git config core.filemode false in your terminal, or

[core]
    filemode = false

in your ~/.gitconfig (Windows users may need to do the latter, according to a comment under this SO answer). This is to prevent committing filemode changes of our pre-commit hook, .husky/pre-commit to your PRs.

Editor/IDE

There are a couple options available for you to choose, depending on your OS.

Visual Studio (for Windows)

If you are on Windows/are a beginner, this will likely be the easiest to use.

• Download Visual Studio 2022 (Community edition is free) or modify your existing install
  • You must choose this version as we use the .NET 7 SDK which older versions do not support
• In the section where you choose your Workloads, select at least "ASP.NET and Web Development"

Once VS has set itself up, you'll have to explicitly tell it to not override our .editorconfig settings*. Go to Tools -> Customise -> Commands, pick "File" in the "Menu bar" item, then in the Add Command window, choose File -> Advanced Save Options, and finally, set that to "Current Setting". Screenshot below for a little extra clarity:

* VS saves files with CRLF, which isn't good for everyone else on Mac/Linux. We've already set explicit line endings in our .editorconfig, but VS overrides it by default.

That should be it! Any other requirements to set up and run the application should be a directed process through the IDE.

Visual Studio Code/Other Editors

A few cross-platform editor choices would be:

• Monodevelop (IDE)
• Visual Studio Code (Code Editor)
• Other editors with Omnisharp integrations

After installing a code editor:

• Install support for editorconfig in your editor
• Download the .NET 7 SDK for your platform

  Try to avoid installing via snap; trying to get dotnet running was more pain than it's worth.

• After cloning this repo, run the command dotnet restore to install all required dependencies
• You will likely want to set up Omnisharp for easier development with your editor
  • In Visual Studio Code, you can simply install the C# extenstion (use this link or the editor UI)
  • Other editors will need to follow instructions to install the Language Server on their system manually

Running the Application

The application reads configuration from environment variables, a .env file, and a appsettings.json file.

The easiest is to make a .env file. As a starting point, you can copy the template file example.env at the project root and rename it to .env.

cp example.env .env

Running the Database(s)

Postgres with Docker compose

As mentioned above, we run Docker containers for the DB. After installing Docker Compose, run this command in the project root:

docker compose up -d

If you're using Linux, you might need to run Docker with sudo.

This starts up:

• Adminer which is a GUI manager for the databases
• A Postgres DB

If you're using the default values provided in example.env, input these values in Adminer for access:

Field	Value	Comment
System	PostgreSQL
Server	db	You cannot set it to localhost because it must match the Docker container name
Username	admin	Corresponds to the ApplicationContext__PG__USER config
Password	example	Corresponds to ApplicationContext__PG__PASSWORD
Database	leaderboardsmain	Corresponds to ApplicationContext__PG__DB

Visual Studio

First Time Setup

After opening the solution, right click the LeaderboardBackend project and click "Set as Startup Project".

Run the App

Press F5 or the green play button at the top of the IDE. Note: The first time running the app, the IDE will prompt you to trust the HTTPS development certs.

Test the App

After expanding the LeaderboardBackend.Test project, you should be able to select Test > Run All Tests from the top of the top menu. Alternatively, you can use the Test Explorer by selecting Test > Test Explorer.

dotnet CLI

First Time Setup

You will need to trust the HTTPS development certs. On Windows/Mac, you can run the following command (from the .NET docs):

dotnet dev-certs https --trust

If you are on Linux, you will need to follow your distribution's documentation to trust a certificate.

• This chapter in the .NET docs covers how to generate and then trust the dev cert for service-to-service (e.g. cURLing) and browser communications on Ubuntu.
  • Trusting certs on Fedora and other distros(??) are linked at the bottom of the chapter.

You can read this chapter if you'd like to clear all certs and start over.

Then run the following commands to run the DB migrations:

# Install project tools
dotnet tool restore
# Run migrations
cd LeaderboardBackend
dotnet ef database update

Run the App

To run the application from the CLI, run the following command from the root of the repository:

cd LeaderboardBackend
dotnet run  # or `dotnet watch` to run with hot reload

Test the App

Docker is required to run integration tests against a real Postgres database.
To run the tests, run the following commands from the root of the repository:

cd LeaderboardBackend.Test
dotnet test

Tests may error due to failure of the Docker container to be found. To fix, set TESTCONTAINERS_DOCKER_SOCKET_OVERRIDE=/var/run/docker.sock.

To debug with breakpoints, first call export VSTEST_DEBUG=1 before running a test. Doing this allows you to attach a debug process to hit breakpoints with.