maikeulb / photoexhibiter

Social network application

PhotoExhibiter

Social network where users showcase their photography exhibits and attend other users' exhibits. Admin users can manage the site content and users.

Architecture is vertically sliced, CQRS, with a rich, encapsulated domain¹ (private collections and setters). The errors are handled with command results (similar to F#'s Option Type or Haskell's Maybe monad).

1. The only exception to this (as far as I'm aware) is the ApplicationUser class which references Identity Framework.

Technology

• ASP.NET Core 2.0
• Identity 2.0
• MySQL
• Entity Framework Core 2.0
• MediatR
• FluentValidation
• NLog
• CSharpFunctionalExtensions
• Bootstrap 4 (with Font Awesome)
• DataTables
• Noty
• Moment
• Rellax
• Google Maps API

Screenshots

Main

Display all upcoming exhibits from all photographers and get notified when any of your attending exhibit details changes or gets cancelled.

Exhibits

Create exhibits so that others can attend.

Profile

The default profile image is a gravatar but users have the ability to upload a photo. Next to the profile image are your upcoming exhibits, attending exhibits, followers, and followings (switch content with tabs).

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Admin

Admin users may manage the exhibits and application users with abilities to cancel exhibits and suspend users.

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Run

You will need webpack. If you have webpack installed, then go ahead and install the javascript dependencies (e.g. npm install).

docker-compose build
docker-compose up
Go to http://localhost:5000

Alternatively, If you have the ASP.NET Core 2.0 SDK installed, then open appsettings.Development.json and point the connection strings to your MySQL server. Install the javascript dependencies (e.g. npm install). You will also need the weback-cli to build the frontend.

npm run build
dotnet restore
dotnet ef database update 
dotnet run
Go to http://localhost:5000

Deploy (Dockerized hosts)

This process is more thoroughly explained here, but I'll summarize the steps required (mostly for my own reference).

Prerequisites: Docker Machine installed on your local machine and DigitalOcean API token.

1. Create Dockerized hos

docker-machine create --driver digitalocean --digitalocean-access-token
$DOTOKEN machine-name

2. Activate Dockerized host

eval (docker-machine env machine-name)

3. Build and run containers

docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.prod.yml build
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d

4. Unset Dockerized host

eval (docker-machine env -u)

NOTE

The resources I use to create this project were plentiful, coming from several projects and tutorials provided by Microsoft (mostly eShopOnWeb, eShopOnContainers, MVCMusicStore, and ContosoUniversity), Pluralsight, Jimmy Bogards Contoso University remake, and several blogs.

TODO

Optimize Dockerfile to reduce build time/size
Prune npm dependencies
Add pagination to the profiles page
Add social Auth