Running the sample locally

Most of the site's functionality works with just the web application running. However, the site's Admin page relies on Blazor WebAssembly running in the browser, and it must communicate with the server using the site's PublicApi web application. You'll need to also run this project. You can configure Visual Studio to start multiple projects, or just go to the PublicApi folder in a terminal window and run dotnet run from there. After that from the Web folder you should run dotnet run --launch-profile Web. Now you should be able to browse to https://localhost:5001/. The admin part in Blazor is accessible to https://localhost:5001/admin

Note that if you use this approach, you'll need to stop the application manually in order to build the solution (otherwise you'll get file locking errors).

After cloning or downloading the sample you must setup your database. To use the sample with a persistent database, you will need to run its Entity Framework Core migrations before you will be able to run the app.

You can also run the samples in Docker (see below).

Configuring the sample to use SQL Server

1. By default, the project uses a real database. If you want an in memory database, you can add in the appsettings.json file in the Web folder

   {
      "UseOnlyInMemoryDatabase": true
   }

2. Ensure your connection strings in appsettings.json point to a local SQL Server instance.

3. Ensure the tool EF was already installed. You can find some help here

   dotnet tool update --global dotnet-ef
   

4. Open a command prompt in the Web folder and execute the following commands:

   dotnet restore
   dotnet tool restore
   dotnet ef database update -c catalogcontext -p ../Infrastructure/Infrastructure.csproj -s Web.csproj
   dotnet ef database update -c appidentitydbcontext -p ../Infrastructure/Infrastructure.csproj -s Web.csproj
   

   These commands will create two separate databases, one for the store's catalog data and shopping cart information, and one for the app's user credentials and identity data.

5. Run the application.

   The first time you run the application, it will seed both databases with data such that you should see products in the store, and you should be able to log in using the [email protected] account.

   Note: If you need to create migrations, you can use these commands:

   -- create migration (from Web folder CLI)
   dotnet ef migrations add InitialModel --context catalogcontext -p ../Infrastructure/Infrastructure.csproj -s Web.csproj -o Data/Migrations
   
   dotnet ef migrations add InitialIdentityModel --context appidentitydbcontext -p ../Infrastructure/Infrastructure.csproj -s Web.csproj -o Identity/Migrations
   

Running the sample in the dev container

This project includes a .devcontainer folder with a dev container configuration, which lets you use a container as a full-featured dev environment.

You can use the dev container to build and run the app without needing to install any of its tools locally! You can work in GitHub Codespaces or the VS Code Dev Containers extension.

Learn more about using the dev container in its readme.

Running the sample using Docker

You can run the Web sample by running these commands from the root folder (where the .sln file is located):

docker-compose build
docker-compose up

You should be able to make requests to localhost:5106 for the Web project, and localhost:5200 for the Public API project once these commands complete. If you have any problems, especially with login, try from a new guest or incognito browser instance.

You can also run the applications by using the instructions located in their Dockerfile file in the root of each project. Again, run these commands from the root of the solution (where the .sln file is located).