Exercise Tracker

This application tracks exercise data. It allows users to save exercise details like date, duration and description as well as assign categories.

Backend is a .NET Web API with REST endpoints for managing exercise and category records.

Frontend is a .NET console application.

Table of contents

• Exercise Tracker
  • Table of contents
  • Technologies
  • Getting started
    • Prerequisites
    • Installation
  • Solution structure
    • Clean Architecture
    • WebApi Best Practices
  • Contributing
  • License
  • Contact

Technologies

• .NET 9
• SQL Server
• Entity Framework Core

Getting started

Prerequisites

• .NET 9 SDK
• SQL Server (Developer, Express, Docker container)
• An IDE like VS Code or VS2022
• Database management tool like SSMS or Dbeaver (optional)

Installation

Note

The InitialCreate migration was created.

It will be applied on startup of the API application and create the database and tables.

1. Clone the repository

   • git clone https://github.com/nwdorian/ExerciseTracker.git

2. Configure appsettings.json

   • replace the connection string with your own if necessary

3. Navigate to the API directory and run the project

   • cd src\ExerciseTracker.WebApi
   • dotnet run

4. Navigate to the Console directory and run the project

   • cd src\ExerciseTracker.Console
   • dotnet run

Solution structure

• Consistent code style enforced by .editorconfig
• Build configuration through Directory.Build.props
  • configuring .NET 9 as target framework for all projects
  • code quality properties
• Central package management through Directory.Packages.Props
• Static code analysis
  • Treat warnings as errors
  • Analysis level set to latest-Recommended
  • SonarAnalyzer.CSharp package

Clean Architecture

Domain layer

• Domain models
• Doesn't have any external dependencies

Application layer

• Business logic classes (services)
• Abstractions implemented in Infrastructure
• Custom errors
• Application DTOs

Infrastructure layer

• EF Core DbContext configuration
• EF Core Migrations
• Repositories
• Seeding configuration

Presentation layer

• WebApi project
  • composition root of the solution
  • REST endpoints
• Console project
  • user interface for consuming the WebApi
• Contracts project
  • presentation layer DTOs - REST Models
  • shared between WebApi and Console projects

WebApi Best Practices

• Api versioning
• Input validation with FluentValidation
• Result pattern
• Structured logging with Serilog
• Soft delete using EF Core interceptors
• Audit fields using EF Core interceptors
• EF Core configuration classes
• Global exception handling
• ProblemDetails RFC7808 standard

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please fork the repository and create a pull request with your changes. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Contact

For any questions or feedback, please open an issue.