ASP.NET Core 3.1 / React SPA Template App
MIT License
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This app is a template application using ASP.NET Core 3.1 for a REST/JSON API server and React for a web client.
npm install && npm start
This template was developed and tested on macOS Sierra but should run on Windows (for development) as well. If you experience any issues getting it to run on Windows and work through them, please submit a PR! The production provisioning and deployment scripts (provision:prod
and deploy:prod
) use Ansible and require a Linux/Ubuntu >= 16.04 target host.
npm install
When first cloning the repo or adding new dependencies, run this command. This will:
npm start
To start the app for development, run this command. This will:
docker-compose up
to ensure the PostgreSQL and MailCatcher Docker images are up and runningdotnet watch run
which will build the app (if changed), watch for changes and start the web server on http://localhost:5000
npm run migrate
After making changes to Entity Framework models in api/Models/
, run this command to generate and run a migration on the database. A timestamp will be used for the migration name.
npm test
This will run the xUnit tests in api.test/ and the Mocha/Enzyme tests in client-react.test/.
npm run provision:prod
Before running this script, you need to create an ops/config.yml file first. See the ops README for instructions.
This will run the ops/provision.yml Ansible playbook and provision hosts in ops/hosts inventory file. Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) and Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) is supported and tested.
This prepares the hosts to recieve deployments by doing the following:
npm run deploy:prod
Before running this script, you need to create a ops/config.yml file first. See the ops README for instructions.
This script will:
This does the following:
appsettings.json
file with PostgreSQL credentials specified in ops/group_vars/all file and the app URL (needed for JWT tokens)Entity Framework Migrations are automatically applied upon startup so they will run when the app restarts.
This template includes a MailCatcher Docker image so that when email is sent during development (i.e. new user registration), it can be viewed in the MailCacher web interface at http://localhost:1080/.
This template was originally created on .NET Core 1.0 and has been upgraded with new versions of .NET Core. Older versions can be found on the Releases page.
This project has Visual Studio Code tasks and debugger launch config located in .vscode/.
With the following debugger launch configs, you can set breakpoints in api/ or the the Mocha tests in client-react.test/ and have full debugging support.
The following resources were helpful in setting up this template: