Web Apis for a simple blogging app using ASP .NET 8

Web Apis for a simple blogging app using ASP .NET 8, The frontend I made for this can be found here:

https://github.com/prashantrahul141/dotnet-t3-blogs

This project uses the following packages.

• BCrypt.Net-Next
• Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore
• Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore
• Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design
• Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL
• Swashbuckle.AspNetCore
• Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.Filters

Building

Make sure you .NET 8 installed, Installation instructions You can also make sure it's installed by running dotnet

$ dotnet

Add the following environment variables to .env file, this will get checked at runtime before starting the application using LoadEnv.cs

# DB using Postgres.
PG_PASSWORD=password of postgres instance
PG_HOST=hostname of db instance
PG_DATABASE=database name
PG_USERNAME=username of db instance
PG_PORT=port of db instance

# JWT Token for Auth.
JWT_ISSUER=http://localhost:3000
JWT_AUD=http://localhost:3000

# Can be created at https://generate-secret.vercel.app/64
JWT_KEY=

Run build

$ dotnet build

Migrate database, for this you will need to install EF, Install instructions

$ dotnet ef migrations add InitialMigration

Then update

$ dotnet ef database update

Then finnaly run the application

$ dotnet run

Swagger UI should automatically open in your default browser at http://localhost:5248/swagger/index.html