Project Overview

This is a practical and imaginary eCommerce backend system built with .NET 8. The system is designed using Monolith Architecture, Vertical Slice Architecture, and Clean Architecture principles. The goal is to demonstrate a scalable, maintainable, and testable approach for building modern eCommerce applications.

Technologies Used

• .NET 8 - The latest stable version of .NET for building high-performance applications.

• 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-relational mapper for .NET that enables LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and database schema migrations.

• AspNetCore OpenApi - Provides built-in support for OpenAPI document generation in ASP.NET Core.

• MediatR - About Simple, unambitious mediator implementation in .NET

• FluentValidation - Popular .NET validation library for building strongly-typed validation rules.

• Swagger UI - Swagger tools for documenting API's built on ASP.NET Core.

• Serilog - Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events

• Polly - Polly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, and Fallback in a fluent and thread-safe manner.

• Scrutor - Assembly scanning and decoration extensions for Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection

• EasyCaching - Open source caching library that contains basic usages and some advanced usages of caching which can help us to handle caching more easier.

• Mapperly - A .NET source generator for generating object mappings. No runtime reflection.

• NSubstitute - A friendly substitute for .NET mocking libraries.

• xUnit - A free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework.

• Bogus - A simple fake data generator for C#, F#, and VB.NET. Based on and ported from the famed faker.js.

• Testcontainers - Testcontainers for .NET is a library to support tests with throwaway instances of Docker containers.

Prerequisites

To get started with this project, you need to have the following installed:

• .NET 8 SDK

Getting Started

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/tguankheng016/dotnet-commerce-monolith.git

Run the development server:

cd src/CommerceMono.Api
dotnet run