Net.WebApi.Template 1.0.0-rc.6

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dotnet Web API Solution Template

A modern multi-project.NET project template that implements a maintainable enterprise-level API application with Api versioning, Fluent email, Fluent validation, JWT authentication, Identity role-based authorization, InMemory caching, IP rate limiting, CQRS with Mediator, Sirilog, and Swagger using Domain Driven Design (DDD) and architecture princliples.

Table of Contents

• Prerequisites
• Architecture Overview
• Instructions
• Contributions
• Credits

Prerequisites

You will need the following tools:

• Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio 2022 (version 17.5.0 or later)
• .NET Core SDK 8.0
• Docker Desktop

Architecture Overview

This is a multi-project solution that utilizes Domain Driven Design (DDD) and CQRS patterns to create a maintainable web API application using .NET 8 that allows it to run on Linux or Windows and in Docker environments.

Figure.1 Application structure

Instructions

Installation:

1. Install the latest .NET Core 8 SDK.
2. Run dotnet new --install Net.WebApi.Template::1.0.0-rc.6 to install the project template

C:\> dotnet new install Net.WebApi.Template::1.0.0-rc.6
The following template packages will be installed:
   Net.WebApi.Template::1.0.0-rc.6

Success: Net.WebApi.Template::1.0.0-rc.6 installed the following templates:
Template Name                   Short Name  Language  Tags
------------------------------  ----------  --------  ------------------------
.NET Web API Solution Template  netwebapi  [C#]      WebAPI/Cloud/Service/Web

Using Visual Studio Code w/ Docker

Ensure you have installed and configured docker in your environment as this will be required to run the containers. After installing .NET Web API Solution Template(Net.WebApi.Template::1.0.0-rc.6) Launch Visual Studio Code and create your project folder. Open the VS Code terminal window and execute the following command to create your application:

dotnet new netwebapi --name MyProject

Create initial database migration

1. Nagigate into the project folder cd MyProject.
2. Install dotnet ef as a global tool with the following command:

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef

You can invoke the tool using the following command: dotnet-ef
Tool 'dotnet-ef' (version '8.0.4') was successfully installed.

3. Next create initial database migration with the following command:

dotnet ef migrations add InitialCreate --context <ProjectNameDbContext>\
--startup-project src/ProjectName.Api/ProjectName.Api.csproj\
--project src/ProjectName.Persistence/ProjectName.Persistence.csproj

Build started...
Build succeeded.
Development
Server=(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB;Database=application_db;Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true
Done. To undo this action, use 'ef migrations remove'
PS C:\rojects\MyProject> 

By default, the project applies database migrations on startup. If you want disable this behaviour, you can set appsettings.Local.json

{
	"UseDatabaseInitializer": true
}

Launch project with Docker

Web API uses HTTPS and relies on certificates for trust, identiy and encryption. To run the template project using Docker over HTTPS during development do the following:

1. Generate certificate using 'dotnet dev-certs' (for localhost only!):

Note Update docker-compose file with dev-cert password used.

On Windows using Linux containers

dotnet dev-certs https -ep "$env:USERPROFILE\.aspnet\https\aspnetapp.pfx"  -p your_password
dotnet dev-certs https --trust

Note When using PowerShell, replace %USERPROFILE% with $env:USERPROFILE.

On macOS or Linux

dotnet dev-certs https -ep "${HOME}\.aspnet\https\aspnetapp.pfx"  -p your_password
dotnet dev-certs https --trust

To launch the application immediately execute the Docker compose commands from the root of your project:

docker-compose up --build

While building the docker images, you should see something like the following image, and the process should take between 1 and 3 minutes to complete, depending on your systems speed.

[+] Building 8.2s (26/26) FINISHED
 => [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile                                                                                                                                0.0s
 => => transferring dockerfile: 32B                                                                                                                                                 0.0s
 => [internal] load .dockerignore                                                                                                                                                   0.0s
 => => transferring context: 2B                                                                                                                                                     0.0s
 => [internal] load metadata for mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:7.0-alpine                                                                                                         0.4s
 => [internal] load metadata for mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:7.0                                                                                                                   0.3s
 => [stage-1 1/4] FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:7.0-alpine@sha256:be84475ff03cf6e2c11e9f730abd27cae6ae6dcdb9fd8dbebf9b787509ee6b4d                                           0.0s
 => [internal] load build context                                                                                                                                                   0.2s
 => => transferring context: 138.91kB                                                                                                                                               0.1s
 => [build-env  1/16] FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:7.0@sha256:f712881bafadf0e56250ece1da28ba2baedd03fb3dd49a67f209f9d0cf928e81                                                 0.0s
 => CACHED [build-env  2/16] WORKDIR /app                                                                                                                                           0.0s
 => CACHED [build-env  3/16] COPY *.sln .                                                                                                                                           0.0s 
 => CACHED [build-env  4/16] COPY src/NetWebApiTemplate.Api/*.csproj ./src/NetWebApiTemplate.Api/                                                                                   0.0s 
 => CACHED [build-env  5/16] COPY src/NetWebApiTemplate.Domain/*.csproj ./src/NetWebApiTemplate.Domain/                                                                             0.0s 
 => CACHED [build-env  6/16] COPY src/NetWebApiTemplate.Application/*.csproj ./src/NetWebApiTemplate.Application/                                                                   0.0s 
 => CACHED [build-env  7/16] COPY src/NetWebApiTemplate.Infrastructure/*.csproj ./src/NetWebApiTemplate.Infrastructure/                                                             0.0s 
 => CACHED [build-env  8/16] COPY src/NetWebApiTemplate.Persistence/*.csproj ./src/NetWebApiTemplate.Persistence/                                                                   0.0s 
 => CACHED [build-env  9/16] RUN dotnet restore                                                                                                                                     0.0s 
 => [build-env 10/16] COPY src/NetWebApiTemplate.Api/. ./src/NetWebApiTemplate.Api/                                                                                                 0.1s 
 => [build-env 11/16] COPY src/NetWebApiTemplate.Domain/. ./src/NetWebApiTemplate.Domain/                                                                                           0.0s
 => [build-env 12/16] COPY src/NetWebApiTemplate.Application/. ./src/NetWebApiTemplate.Application/                                                                                 0.1s 
 => [build-env 13/16] COPY src/NetWebApiTemplate.Infrastructure/. ./src/NetWebApiTemplate.Infrastructure/                                                                           0.1s 
 => [build-env 14/16] COPY src/NetWebApiTemplate.Persistence/. ./src/NetWebApiTemplate.Persistence/                                                                                 0.0s
 => [build-env 15/16] WORKDIR /app/src/NetWebApiTemplate.Api                                                                                                                        0.0s 
 => [build-env 16/16] RUN dotnet publish -c Release -o out                                                                                                                          7.1s 
 => CACHED [stage-1 2/4] RUN apk add --no-cache icu-libs krb5-libs libgcc libintl libssl1.1 libstdc++ zlib                                                                          0.0s
 => CACHED [stage-1 3/4] WORKDIR /app                                                                                                                                               0.0s
 => CACHED [stage-1 4/4] COPY --from=build-env /app/src/NetWebApiTemplate.Api/out ./                                                                                                0.0s 
 => exporting to image                                                                                                                                                              0.0s 
 => => exporting layers                                                                                                                                                             0.0s 
 => => writing image sha256:c03a3d62fdb58e63dbdc63d1e39d4b5d435bdc0b3d70c575f990019316a5ff07                                                                                        0.0s 
 => => naming to docker.io/library/NetWebApiTemplate-webapi 

You should be able to browse to the application by using the below URL :

Swagger : https://localhost:44372/swagger
Health : https://localhost:44372/health

Using Visual Studio:

Ensure Visual Studio 2022 (version 17.5.0 or later) is installed. Launch Visual Studio 2022 and Select WebAPI from the project type drop down. Select the .NET Web API Solution template you want to install and follow the instructions.

Database Setup

To setup the SQL Server database following the instructions below:

1. Reveiw the connection string in appsettings.Development.json and update the database name.
2. Run dotnet ef migrations add Initial --context <ProjectName>DbContext to add migation with EF Core
3. Run dotnet ef database update Initial to create application database.

Third Party Libraries

• AspNetCoreRateLimit
• Dapper
• Fluent Email
• Fluent Validation
• HashidsCore.NET
• Mediator.SourceGenerator
• Polly
• Serilog

Contributions

• Andre Vidal
• Patrick Harty
• Mitzi-Ann Miller

Credits

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Versions

The main branch is running .NET 8.0

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md main branch is running .NET 8.0 file for details.