BookReviewer is an API built with microservices that provides users the ability to leave their own book reviews and subscribe to specific books to receive email notifications of new reviews.

• ASP.Net Core;
• MongoDB databases for storing books, reviews, subscriptions and user data;
• RabbitMQ for communication between microservices;
• Ocelot as API Gateway;
• JWT for authentication and authorization;
• MailKit library to send e-mails via SMTP;

Application is built using microservices architecture approach. The diagram below shows how different modules of the application are connected with each other:

• Clone repository
• Create .env file in src directory and add following enviromental variables:

#SMTP configuration:
EmailConfigurationHost=
EmailConfigurationPort=
EmailConfigurationEmail=
EmailConfigurationPassword=

#JWT configuration
JwtSettingsJwtSecret=
JwtSettingsLifetimeSeconds=
JwtSettingsJwtIssuer=

#InitialAdminAccountCredentials (password min. length is 8, must have uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special character)
InitialAdminUserCredentialsEmail=
InitialAdminUserCredentialsPassword=

• Launch docker compose in src directory:

docker compose up

• Access API at http://localhost:3000/. Swagger Documentation is also available at http://localhost:3000/swagger