ASP.Net Core MVC Blog App

A blog app built with C# and ASP.NET Core MVC, packed with features like user authentication, an easy-to-use admin panel for content management, and more. You can view the screenshots here

Features

• User Authentication
  • Signup, login, and logout functionality.
  • Custom user model where instead of having to sign in with e-mail, you could use your username.
• Admin Panel
  • The panel is accesible to each user with the "Admin" role through the dropdown menu in the navbar.
  • View posts, comments, categories and users.
  • Edit or delete existing users in the database.
  • Quickly make posts from the dashboard.
• Pagination and Search Bar
  • All the posts and comments are paginated and sorted by their creation date in a descending order.
  • You can search for each post that you may be looking for.
• Custom text formatting
  • Each user can customize the way their posts and comments look thanks to Froala!
• Profile Management
  • Users can access their profiles via the dropdown on the navbar.
  • Each user is able to edit view and edit their own posts.

Project Structure

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├── Areas
│   └── Identity                # All the Identity files required for user authentication, etc.
├── bin                         # Stores compiled output files
├── Controllers
│   ├── AdminController.cs      # Controller for the admin panel
│   ├── CategoriesController.cs # Controller for the Category model
│   ├── HomeController.cs       # Controller for the home page (or pages not related to a specific model)
│   └── PostsController.cs      # Controller for the Post model
├── Data
│   ├── BlogDbContext.cs        # Main DbContext file
│   ├── BlogUser.cs             # Custom user model
│   └── SeedData.cs             # Automatically seeds the database if it's empty
├── Migrations                  # Entity Framework Core database migrations
├── Models
│   ├── ViewModels              # All the view models are stored here
│   ├── Category.cs             # The Category model
│   ├── Comment.cs              # The Comment model
│   ├── ErrorViewModel.cs       # View model to display errors
│   └── Post.cs                 # The Post model
├── obj                         # Holds temporary build files and intermediate object files used during compilation
├── Properties                  # Contains configuration files
├── Screenshots                 # Screenshots of the app
├── Views
│   ├── Admin                   # All the views for the admin panel
│   ├── Categories              # All the views for the Category model
│   ├── Home                    # All the views for the home page
│   ├── Posts                   # All the views for the Post model
│   ├── Shared                  # Base Layouts
│   ├── _ViewImports.cshtml     # Used for dependency injection
│   └── _ViewStart.cshtml       # Sets the default layout
├── wwwroot                     # Static files
├── appsettings.json            # Self-explanatory
├── MvcBlog.csproj              # Defines dependencies, target frameworks, and build settings
├── PaginatedList.cs            # Logic for pagination
└── Program.cs                  # The entry point of the app

Setup Instructions

1. Prerequisites:

Before setting up the project, ensure you have the following installed:

• .NET SDK (Latest LTS version)
• SQLite
• Visual Studio or VS Code (optional but recommended)
• Entity Framework Core CLI (install it using dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef)

2. Clone the Repository:

   git clone https://github.com/TinyPuff/MvcBlog.git  
   cd MvcBlog  

3. Apply Migrations:

   dotnet ef database update

4. Build & Run the Application:

   dotnet build
   dotnet run

5. Access the application at http://local:5000/ (if you see a different port in the command line/terminal, you should use that instead of 5000).

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.