CDP C# ASP.NET Backend Template

Core delivery C# ASP.NET backend template.

• Install MongoDB
• Inspect MongoDB
• Testing
• Running
• Dependabot

Docker Compose

A Docker Compose template is in compose.yml.

A local environment with:

• Localstack for AWS services (S3, SQS)
• Redis
• MongoDB
• This service.
• A commented out frontend example.

docker compose up --build -d

A more extensive setup is available in github.com/DEFRA/cdp-local-environment

MongoDB

MongoDB via Docker

See above.

docker compose up -d mongodb

MongoDB locally

Alternatively install MongoDB locally:

• Install MongoDB on your local machine
• Start MongoDB:

sudo mongod --dbpath ~/mongodb-cdp

MongoDB in CDP environments

In CDP environments a MongoDB instance is already set up and the credentials exposed as enviromment variables.

Inspect MongoDB

To inspect the Database and Collections locally:

mongosh

You can use the CDP Terminal to access the environments' MongoDB.

Testing

Run the tests with:

Tests run by running a full WebApplication backed by Ephemeral MongoDB. Tests do not use mocking of any sort and read and write from the in-memory database.

dotnet test

Running

Run CDP-Deployments application:

dotnet run --project Backend.Api --launch-profile Development

SonarCloud

Example SonarCloud configuration are available in the GitHub Action workflows.

Dependabot

We have added an example dependabot configuration file to the repository. You can enable it by renaming the .github/example.dependabot.yml to .github/dependabot.yml

About the licence

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