Introduction

Description

Rookie Shop is a .NET Core web application training project demonstrating Clean Architecture, DDD, and modern web development using Aspire and Next.js. It is part of the Rookie Phase-1 Assignment at NashTech.

Rookie Shop uses Clean Architecture and DDD to ensure maintainability, scalability, and effective communication between developers and domain experts. It also integrates Aspire, a mature framework, to streamline development and provide a robust foundation for building modern web applications.

Rookie Shop uses Next.js to enhance performance, provide an intuitive development experience, and create dynamic, responsive web interfaces.

Requirements

Build an e-commerce web site with minimum functionality below:

For customers:

• Home page: category menu, features products
• View products by category
• View product details
• Product rating
• Register
• Login/Logout
• Optional (Shopping Cart, Ordering, IdentityServer4)

For admin:

• Login/logout
• Manage product categories (Name, Description)
• Manage products (Name, Category, Description, Price, Images, CreatedDate, UpdatedDate)
• View customers

Tips

The project should apply as many techniques of ASP.NET MVC Core as possible. For example: TagHelpers, Razor Pages, ViewComponents and have Unit Test. The Unit Test do not need to have a high coverage number but should demonstrate the ability to write unit test for common components: Controllers, ViewComponents, Services …

Technical Stack

• ASP.NET Core 8.0: A cross-platform, high-performance, open-source framework for building modern, cloud-based, Internet-connected applications.
• htmx: A JavaScript library that allows you to access AJAX, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes.
• Alphine.js: A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.
• ///_hyperscript: A small, open scripting language. Enhance HTML with concise DOM, event and async features. Make writing interactive HTML a joy.
• Next.js 14.0: A React framework that enables functionality such as server-side rendering and generating static websites for React-based web applications.
• Duende IdentityServer 7.0: An authentication server that provides authentication and authorization services for the application.
• Redis: An open-source, in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker.
• Postgres: A powerful, open-source object-relational database system.
• Aspire: An opinionated, cloud ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed applications.
• Yarp: A reverse proxy that routes incoming requests to the appropriate service.
• OpenTelemetry: An observability framework for cloud-native software.
• NUKE: A cross-platform build automation system with C# DSL.