Sigma Cars

Note

Application is in beta.

📝 Description

Sigma Cars is a car rental application. This is a learning project that was created to practice and demonstrate the development of a full stack web application. Users can search for cars by location, price, and availability, and make reservations for the selected car.

• Sigma Cars is containerized using Docker, providing easy deployments and scalability.
• The backend is developed using ASP.NET Core, a high-performance framework, and utilizes a PostgreSQL database for efficient data storage and retrieval.
• The website is built using Nuxt and Vue, resulting in an interactive and visually appealing user interface. It is developed with a focus on type-safety by using TypeScript
• Project utilizes an Nginx proxy server, which acts as a reverse proxy, handling incoming requests and forwarding them to the appropriate services.
• This repository leverages GitHub Actions to automate the CI/CD process. This ensures that up-to-date images are pushed to Docker Hub, making it easy to deploy the latest version of the project.
• Users can choose to access the system via the REST API documented by OpenAPI schema, allowing programmatic interactions, or use the website for a user-friendly graphical interface.

🚀 How to run

1. Install and set up Docker on your machine.
2. Download this file from repository. In PowerShell you can use: Invoke-WebRequest https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kacperwyczawski/sigma-cars/main/docker-compose.yml -OutFile docker-compose.yml.
3. Open Docker Desktop, ensuring that it is properly installed and running.
4. In your terminal or command prompt, navigate to the directory where you downloaded the docker-compose.yml file.
5. Run docker compose up to start the project.

⭐ How to use

• After running the application, open http://localhost in your preferred web browser.
• There is default admin account with email: admin@sigma.cars and password: admin.

💭 Optional

• You can access OpenAPI schema at http://localhost/api/schema/v1 (can be imported into Postman).
• Base path for all REST API endpoints is http://localhost/api.

⚒️ How to develop

First you need to clone this repository. After making changes, you can run the application with docker compose up --build.

If you want to use hot reload for frontend:

1. cd SigmaCars/Frontend.
2. npm run dev.
3. docker compose up -f ../docker-compose.dev.frontend.yml.
4. Website is now available at http://localhost.

Details for Linux users:

There may be some problems with proxy_pass from nginx to host machine. This stackoverflow answer may help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24319662/from-inside-of-a-docker-container-how-do-i-connect-to-the-localhost-of-the-mach/43541681#43541681

🔗 Application schema

flowchart TD
    user([End user]) --- nginx{{Nginx reverse proxy}}
    nginx --- backend(ASP.NET Core HTTP API)
    backend --- database[(Postgres database)]
    nginx --- frontend(Vue + Nuxt website)

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🗃️ Simplified database schema

erDiagram
    CarType ||--o{ Car : x
    Department ||--o{ Car : x
    Car ||--o{ Rental : x
    User ||--o{ Rental : x

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📫 Feedback

I hope you find Sigma Cars project helpful! If you encounter any issues or have any feedback, please don't hesitate to contact me via github issues.