Plant-Watering-App-Backend

The backend server needed to run the ShipVista Plants Assessment which can be seen here

Technologies used

• .NET Core(Web API) (REST API)
• PostgreSQL (Open Source Relational Database) (not needed to run on local machine)

Requirements

• GIT (version 2.x and above)
• Visual Studio (version 2019 and above) (configured with the .NET package, community edition is fine) (go here to install visual studio with .NET)

Optional

• PostgreSQL (latest version would be fine) (click here for installation instructions)

Getting Started

Clone Repository

Clone the repository to your computer.

git clone https://github.com/joshADE/Plant-Watering-App-Backend.git

Installation

1. Open the project directory.
2. Open the .sln (solution) file with Visual Studio to restore the necessary NuGet packages required for the project.

Database

1. No RDBMS is required to run the project as the data is kept in memory.

Running project locally

1. Build the project by navigating to Build > Build Solution and make sure that there are no errors.
2. Press the green play button (IIS Express)

Open up https://localhost:44321/api/plants in a browser to see the app. (You can use part of the url 'https://localhost:44321/api/' to connect to the front-end of the app linked above). You can also visit https://localhost:44321/swagger/ to see list of all the endpoints and interact with them.