EA Take Home Assignment

Take home assignment that does following:

• User can read posts
• Each post can have multiple comments
• User can write posts
• User can comment on a post
• User can register

Live Demo

See Live Demo Deployed on Azure

Tech

EA Assignment was built with:

• .NET Core - Cross platform framework for C#
• Angular - Javascript framework for Gui
• Postgresql - RDBMS

Libraries:

• Entity Framework Core - ORM for api project to interact with postgresql.
• Autofac - IoC container for .NET Core
• Moq - C# testing framework
• Devextreme - Angular UI framework
• Swagger - API documentation

Installation

To run locally, the app requires:

• Node - v8+
• NPM - v6+
• .NET Core SDK - 2.2
• Postgresql - v10+, with role name: admin, password: admin with create privilege

To start Gui, install the dependencies and start the server.

$ cd ea-assignment/web/gui
$ npm install
$ npm run-script build-prod

To start backend, restore packages, build the solution then migrate the database.

$ cd ea-assignment/src/api
$ dotnet restore
$ dotnet build
$ cd ../data
$ dotnet ef database update
$ cd ../api
$ dotnet run

To run on another host built with docker, the app requires:

• Docker - Recommended v18.02.0+
• Docker Compose - v1.20+

To run:

$ cd ea-assignment
$ docker-compose build
$ docker-compose up

Or alternatively you can pull from Docker Hub

$ docker pull damiankim/ea-assignment:gui-latest
$ docker pull damiankim/ea-assignment:api-latest
$ docker pull damiankim/ea-assignment:db-latest

Testing

To run backend tests:

$ cd ea-assignment/tests/blogtest
$ dotnet test

To run frontend tests:

$ cd ea-assignment/web/gui
$ npm test

API Documentation

Assuming running on docker, API Documentation can be found at:

http://localhost:5000/swagger/index.html

Todos

• Write GUI Test
• Add Authentication
• More Features to utilize APIs