A User Diary App made with ASP.NET Core and React.

Prerequisite:

1. ASP.Net Core 5.0

• You can download it within Visual Studio 2019 by accessing Visal Studio Installer which you can download and install from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
• After installation run Visual Studio Installer, click install and from the options make sure ASP.NET and web development is selected. From there intall it by following the setup instructions.

2. Microsoft SQL Express 2018

• You can download and install the express version form the follwing link https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads and follow the instruction given by the setup.

Development Tools:

1. Visual Studio 2019

• Visual Studio 2019 can be installed by first installing Visal Studio Installer which you can download and install from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

2. Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18.

• Download and install from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms?view=sql-server-ver15

Process for running development environment:

1. Open the solution of the backend (.sln file) in Visual Studio 2019 IDE.

• Wait for some time to let visual studio to download the required packages automatically.

3. Head on to appsettings.json in solution explorer and put your respective server name in the connection string inside Server = ; area below. You can generally find it Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18 during connecting to a server.

  "ConnectionStrings": {
    "DefaultConnection": "Server=.\\SQLEXPRESS;Database=DiaryDbDebashish;Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True"
  },

4. Run the code using ctrl+F5 or clicking IIS EXPRESS run button.
5. Database should be created automatically but if not created then go to Tools->NuGet Package Manager ->Package Manager Console and after the console opens, run the command update-database. This will create the database in your MS SQL server.
6. The server will start on the url https://localhost:44352 in browser with Swagger UI

Prerequisite:

1. Node JS
   

• To install node js go to https://nodejs.org/en/. The recommended version will do.
  
• To check if node js is installed or not, open terminal and type node –v which will give the version installed in the system.
  

Development Tools:

1. Visual Studio Code
   

• Install visual studio code from https://code.visualstudio.com/download
  

2. Command Prompt
   

• Open desired folder and open command promt by typing in cmd and press Enter in the address bar of explorer
  

Process for running development environment:

1. After installing the prerequisite go to the project folder frontend and access command prompt from there.
2. Use the command npm install to install all the packages required.
3. To run the project type the command npm start .
4. The server will then be started and can be accessed by the url http://localhost:3000