🌲🏞️ Parks Explorer 🏞️🌲

By Sarah Andyshak

An MVC website exploring national and state parks, monuments, and forests, calling on the ParksDirectory API.

Technologies Used

• C#
• .NET
• ASP.Net
• Entity Framework
• HTML
• CSS

🌲 Description

A website to help you explore the US national parks system. This site was created to consume the Parks Directory API.

Screenshots from this site:

🌲 How To Run This Project

What Is This?

This project (the Parks Explorer) is based on the following classwork on LearnHowToProgram.com:

• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/building-an-api/mvc-client-getall
• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/building-an-api/mvc-client-getdetails
• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/building-an-api/mvc-client-post-put-and-delete

Finally, this project was scaffolded using dotnet new.

Install Tools

Install the tools that are introduced in this series of lessons on LearnHowToProgram.com.

Set Up and Run the ParksDirectory API Project

First, following the instructions in the README of this repo to set up and run the ParksDirectory API.

Set Up and Run This Project

1. Clone this repo.
2. Open the terminal and navigate to this project's production directory called "ParksExplorer".
3. Within the production directory "ParksExplorer", run dotnet watch run in the command line to start the project in development mode with a watcher.
4. Open the browser to https://localhost:7044/. If you cannot access https://localhost:7044 it is likely because you have not configured a .NET developer security certificate for HTTPS. To learn about this, review this lesson: Redirecting to HTTPS and Issuing a Security Certificate.

Known Bugs

• As of 31 March 2023, updates (save, edit, delete actions) lag and the page needs to be refreshed for changes to be applied (when using a Mac).

License

Enjoy the site! If you have questions or suggestions for fixing the code, please contact me!

MIT

Copyright (c) 2023 Sarah Andyshak