README.md

Travel and Accommodation Booking Platform

Table of Contents

• Projects Structure
• Technology Stack
• Getting Started
• API Usage Examples
• Testing

Projects Structure

• TravelAccommodationBooking.Api: Presentation Layer, providing endpoints and functionality for the platform.
• TravelAccommodationBooking.Db: Data access Layer for managing database interactions. This includes the use of Entity Framework Core (EF Core) for working on Object-Relational Mapping (ORM).
• TravelAccommodationBooking: Business Logic Layer, handles core business logic.
• TravelAccommodationBooking.Tests: Contains unit tests to ensure the reliability and correctness of the platform.

Frameworks

• xUnit - for testing

Technology Stack

• .NET 6: Target framework for building web APIs.
• Entity Framework Core: ORM for data access.
• AutoMapper: Object mapping solution.
• BCrypt: Cryptography provider for hashing passwords.
• FluentValidation: Framework for building strong validation rules.
• JWT Bearer Authentication: Implementation for secure user authentication.
• Serilog: Logging mechanism.
• Swashbuckle: Swagger tool for API documentation.

Getting Started

Dependencies(Prerequisites)

• .NET

Setup and Running

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone `[Repository URL](https://github.com/Reema-Khaseeb/Travel-Accommodation-Booking.git)

2. Navigate to the project's root directory:

   cd TravelAccommodationBooking

3. Restore dependencies and build the project:

   dotnet restore
   dotnet build

4. Launch the API project:
   

   dotnet run --project TravelAccommodationBooking.API

API Usage Examples

Detailed examples of API usage are provided in the Swagger UI once the application is running:

http://localhost:7119/swagger

Testing

To run the unit tests, use the following command:

dotnet test TravelAccommodationBooking.Tests