Before running this project, make sure that you have the ASP.NET and web development workload installed via the Visual Studio Installer, as this project uses Blazor + ASP.NET. Please also make sure that you have .NET 8 installed.
To run this project, you can open up the PetShop.sln file in Visual Studio. There will be to run configurations available to you. Make sure to select the http option when running the project, as it will be hosted on localhost.
You may also use dotnet run if you prefer to use the command line.
If you would like to reset the local SQLite database, simply extract and replace the shop.db file in this directory from the original .zip file this project was in whilst the program is NOT RUNNING.
There should be no further setup needed. The extra setup details below are simply for the development environment to setup the local SQLite database file and runs the TailwindCSS build step.
You do not need to do this, as the included shop.db file has already had all the EF Core migrations ran. Furthermore, the CSS file in wwwroot/app.css is already the version that contains all the necessary utility classes used in the project.
First install the necessary development dependencies:
dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef
npm iBefore running the application, make sure the database is up to date with:
dotnet ef database updateIf you get errors, delete shop.db and retry again.
To run the application in watch mode:
npm run mix -- --watch
dotnet watchThis runs both Tailwind and Dotnet in watch mode.