7. Challenges.md

Challenges

Now that we've built the basic site, there might be time for some challenges! Below are a list of feature ideas that take advantage of other ASP.NET Core features:

Identity

• Add local user accounts using ASP.NET Core Identity instead of Google or Twitter authentication - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authentication/identity

Logging

• Add Serilog, a 3rd party logger to the front end and disable built in console logging.
• Add ILogger support to the front end ApiClient implementation to log all outgoing http requests.

Images

• Allow attendees to upload images.
• Resize the image using ImageSharp

Caching

• Add appropriate caching to FrontEnd site:
  • Memory cache
  • Distributed cache
  • Response caching

Tag Helpers

• Render Markdown for the session Abstract (instead of HTML) using a custom markdown tag helper.

Data

• Change database provider to Postgres - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Npgsql/
• Change database provider to MySql - https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySql.Data/

Testing

• Write unit tests for the BackEnd Controllers
• Write unit tests for the FrontEnd Razor pages

FrontEnd Features

• Make the names slugs instead of using IDs in the urls to navigate entities
• Support multiple conferences
  • Add conference date
  • Make the home page show upcoming conferences (within 5 days)
  • Move agenda to separate page
• Add admin pages to manage:
  • Tracks
  • Attendees
  • Conferences
  • Sessions
  • Speakers (allow speaker image upload)

BackEnd Features

• Add date filtering to the BackEnd APIs
• Add support for returning XML from the APIs
• Add links to related entities in the responses e.g. Attendee has a list of sessions, return URLs for each of the session resources related to Attendee.

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