.NET Blog

A knowledge base for .NET(C#) coding and web development articles. Uses Entity Framework Core and deployed with a

greSQL database. Implements role and identity-based access, custom routing, front-end layouts, and password validation using regular expression.

My code-centric blog articles and tutorials - http://lfost42-blog.herokuapp.com/

Summary Info

WALKTHROUGH

A blog that allows the owner to articles upon being authenticated via login. Users may leave comments after registering and being authenticated. Tags help filter articles by topic.

• Series
• Articles
• Comments
• Tags

OPEN REQUIREMENTS

MVP: Owner can create series and write articles under a series.

COMPLETED FEATURES:

• Add role-based access
• add image service
• Add email service for registration and contact me form
• Implement tags
• Slug service (alternate routes for accessing articles instead of primary keys)
• Visitors may add comments after registering and logging in.
• Locate comments by guest
• Add role-based views
• user can click tags to find other articles with that tag
• Implement Series as a nav bar in shared _layout with searcher
• Article cards for landing page
  • featured article with photo, series, title, and summary (links to article)
  • 2nd-5th most recent articles below featured article at half size
• Series index
  • featured article with photo series, title, and summary (links to article)
  • 2nd-5th most recent articles below featured article at half size
• Article page
  • Series
  • Title
  • Summary
  • AuthorImage Author
  • Article Image
  • Article Body
  • Article Modals for comments
• create modals for editing comments
• implement front-end styling in HTML and CSS.
• reroute series pages to link to an index of articles within that series instead of a series detail page
• add sharing links options to Facebook, twitter, linkedin, and reddit
• configure social previews
• Hide comments by default, show using comments button

FUTURE UPDATES:

• Add most used tags, number of times used, and link to tag index page (to home)
• Extend slug service to Series
• create modals for editing series titles/descriptions/pictures
• Add a method to reply to comments
• Add a like button
• Implement VH scaling for media views
• create demo role and account that can leave anonymous comments and not modify them.
• Hover series to display carousel of articles within that series

USER INTERFACE

Dashboard shows series and recent articles. Side-menu to older articles. Search function. Login for writing articles or comments.

LOGIC DESIGN

Identity Access, owner creates articles Role Based Security, authenticated visitors may leave comments

DATA DESIGN

• Blog Series
• Blog Article
• Blog Tag
• Blog Comment
• Photos

-- Users--

• Photo
• Contact Links
• Collection<Articles
• Collection<Comments

--Blog--

• Name
• Description
• Date Created
• Date Updated
• fk_Image
• fk_Creator -Collection<Articles

--Comment--

• Subject
• Comment
• Date Created
• Date Updated
• Date Deleted
• fk_Article
• fk_creator

--File--

• IFormFile (Image)
• PhotoName
• PhotoExtension
• PhotoData
• DateUploaded

--Article--

• Title
• Summary
• Body
• Status
• Date Created
• Date Updated
• Slug
• Photo
• fk_series
• fk_creator
• Collection<Tags
• Collection<Comments

--Tag--

• Tag
• fk_article