EndeavourDrinksApp

This solution contains a demonstration of a imaginary shopping cart applicationwhich consists of the following Visual Studio projects:

• DrinksDatabase is a MS-SQL project containing the schema, table definitions and stored procedures required for this application.
• EndeavourDrinks is a C# API REST server for the application.
• EndeavourDrinks.App is an Angular 16.1 browser application. This was developed using VS Code.
• EndeavourDrinks.DAL is the C# 'data access layer' which provides the logic and interaction with the database for the REST server.
• EndeavourModels contains the C# definitions of the tables and API data structures.

System Requirements

• An instance of MS-SQL server. This can be a local or a network server.
• Visual Studio 2022.
• Node.Js installed.
• VS Code (Optional)

Installation Instructions

• Open the solution using Visual Studio
• Publish the DrinksDatabase project using Visual Studio to you SQL server instance.
• Create sample customers and products by running the script initialData.sql against the database.
• Create an environmental variable, 'SQLCONNSTR_DrinksConnStr' with the connection string to this database. (This can be added into the Visual Studio debugging settings.) For example: Data Source=(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB;Initial Catalog=EndeavourDrinks;Integrated Security=True;Connect Timeout=60;Encrypt=False
• Run the API REST server application from within Visual Studio in debug mode. This will open a Swagger page in the browser. Test that the API server is running be executing the GetCustomer or GetProducts API.
• Navigate to the EndeavourDrinks.app folder from a command line (PowerShell), or optionally open with VS Code, then:
  • From the command line run the command npm i to install the Node packages
  • From the command line run the command npm run start

To Do!

This is only a demonstration of what can be done in 3 days so there's plenty of scope for improvements, including:

• Other optional features of the specifications:
  • Deploying to a cloud provider with a CI/CD pipeline
  • A dashboard to monitor the application
  • Handle item and order discounts. (Some allowance for these are in the database design.)
• Auditing and logging features for both the client and server applications.
• Additional unit tests.
• Component and E2E tests.
• Internationalization.
• Obtaining end-point configurations programatically, for example, from environment variables a configuration file.
• Accessibility enhancements.
• Mobile and tablet responsive views.
• Implement authentication.
• Improved alert and error display.
• Ability to enter a quantity as a number, to order a dozen bottles of wine is not easy at the moment.
• Add a search/filter capability.
• Display products as cards, with an image.
• Ensure that deployment into Linux works.