.NET Microservices Boilerplate

The goal is to build a framework that can make building microservices in .NET easy for developers. This project follows Vertical Slice Architecture and is built using Dapr as the core framework, along with other latest best practices and tools like CQRS, NoSQL, SQL, MediatR, Serilog, FluentValidations and more.🚀

.NET Microservices Boilerplate
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Goals

❇️ Using Vertical Slice Architecture for architecture level.
❇️ Using Dapr building blocks for microservice development and communication.
❇️ Using Domain Driven Design (DDD) to implement all business processes in microservices.
❇️ Using Rabbitmq on top of Dapr for Event Driven Architecture between our microservices.
❇️ Using CQRS implementation with MediatR library.
❇️ Using Entity Framework Core for some microservices.
❇️ Using MongoDB for some microservices.
❇️ Using Fluent Validation and a Validation Pipeline Behaviour on top of MediatR.
❇️ Using Minimal API for all endpoints.
❇️ Using Health Check for reporting the health of app infrastructure components.
❇️ Using Tye for local development and debugging.
❇️ Using Built-In Containerization for Docker images.
❇️ Using Zipkin for distributed tracing.
❇️ Using OpenIddict for authentication and authorization base on OpenID-Connect and OAuth2.
❇️ Using Yarp as a microservices gateway.

FluentPos

FluentPos is a sample project that consumes the microservice framework. You will learn a lot by exploring this project, which is located under the ./fluentpos folder.

Services	Status
Gateway	Completed ✔️
Identity	Completed ✔️
Catalog	Completed ✔️
Cart	WIP 🚧
People	WIP 🚧
Ordering	WIP 🚧
Payment	WIP 🚧

How to Run ?

Tye

Tye is a super-awesome way to run your applications quickly. The fluentpos project already has this support. Simply run the following at the ./fluentpos directory :

make tye

That's it!

This will spin up all the services required.

Gateway will be available on https://localhost:7002.
Identity Service will be available on https://localhost:7001.
Catalog Service will be available on https://localhost:7003.

To Test these APIs, you can use open up Visual Code from the ./fluentpos directory, install the Thunder Client extension. I have already included the required Test collections at ./fluentpos/thunder-tests.

You can find the specification of services under the ./fluentpos/tye.yaml file.

Docker & Docker-Compose

The fluentpos project comes included with the required docker-compose.yaml and makefile file for your reference.

There are some prerequisites for using these included docker-compose.yml files:

Make sure you have docker installed (on windows install docker desktop)
Create and install an https certificate:
```
dotnet dev-certs https -ep $env:USERPROFILE\.aspnet\https\cert.pfx -p password!
```
Note that the certificate name and password should match the ones that are mentioned in the docker-compose.yaml file.
It's possible that the above step gives you an A valid HTTPS certificate is already present error. In that case you will have to run the following command, and then Re-Run Step #2.
```
 dotnet dev-certs https --clean
```
Trust the certificate
```
 dotnet dev-certs https --trust
```

Once your certificate is trusted, simply navigate into the ./fluentpos folder of the project and run the following command.

make docker-up

This will spin up all the containers required. Your Gateway URL will be available on https://localhost:7002.

To bring down all the fluentpos container, simply run the following.

make docker-down

Note that the default Docker Images that will be pulled are from my public Image Repository (for eg, iammukeshm/fluentpos.identity:latest). You can switch it your variants if required.

Technologies & Libraries

.NET 7 - .NET Framework and .NET Core, including ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core
MVC Versioning API - Set of libraries which add service API versioning to ASP.NET Web API, OData with ASP.NET Web API, and ASP.NET Core
EF Core - Modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations
MediatR - Simple, unambitious mediator implementation in .NET.
FluentValidation - Popular .NET validation library for building strongly-typed validation rules
Swagger & Swagger UI - Swagger tools for documenting API's built on ASP.NET Core
Serilog - Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events
OpenIddict - OpenIddict aims at providing a versatile solution to implement OpenID Connect client, server and token validation support.
Mapster - Convention-based object-object mapper in .NET.
Yarp - Reverse proxy toolkit for building fast proxy servers in .NET
Tye - Developer tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier.
MongoDB.Driver - .NET Driver for MongoDB.

Documentation

Read Documentation related to this Boilerplate here - https://fullstackhero.net/dotnet-microservices-boilerplate/

Feel free to contribute to the Documentation Repository - https://github.com/fullstackhero/docs Docs are not yet updated.

Changelogs

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Community

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License

This project is licensed with the MIT license.

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