README

This is an example forum application, consisting of .NET API, MongoDb doc store and JavaScript framework UI
0.1 work in progress
Based on an earlier project, some details of the stack are described here (this repo is a rewrite though so will differ as it is built out);
Accompanying blog post about this repository can be found here

How do I get set up?

Clone this repo
Download MongoDb, for reviewing, running and developing this API you need windows so select the appropriate Windows version https://www.mongodb.org/downloads
Install MongoDb, installing as a service is optional but saves you starting the service when you boot up Install MongoDb as Windows Service
Download a mongodb client, robomongo is nice and free
Open Forum.sln in Visual Studio (2012 or above)
Build the solution
Run Forum.Tools.Sample.exe to load some sample data to Mongo
Set Forum.Api project as start project
hit F5 to see API running
OR set up the Api in IIS under the url localhost/forum-api (or whatever you want to configure it as)
Running the integration tests will wipe your mongo database, so that it can set up a known set of test data. The integration tests also tear down this data, so after running you need to re-run the Forum.Tools.Sample executable if you want sample data in mongo.
Running the Forum.Tools.Sample executable with the optional first argument of 'remove' will also wipe the local mongo database should you wish to do this