Chatty McChatFace's Chatty McChatApp

By Jacob Wilson Matt Luker and Skylar Brockbank

A chat app

Technologies Used

• C#
• .NET 5
• ASP.NET Core MVC
• dotnet script, REPL
• Razor View Engine
• MySQL and MySQL Workbench
• Git
• Pomelo Entity Framework for MySql
• Microsoft Entity Framework (Identity)

Description

An application that lets users chat with one another

Setup/Installation Requirements

Application Setup

• Install .NET 5.0 here

• _Click the green "Code" button and Download Zip _

• Extract the contents of the zip file to a folder on your machine

• Navigate to the Factory Directory and touch appsettings.json and fill with the following

{
    "ConnectionStrings": {
        "DefaultConnection": "Server=localhost;Port=3306;database=chat;uid=root;pwd=[YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE];"
    }
}

• _Replace [YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE] with your MySql Password.

• alternatively you can clone this repository from Git Hub

Database Setup

• Download MySQL and MySQL Workbench to set up a local database

• Once installed, create a database from the included migration files by navigating to the Chat Directory and typing into the terminal:

  dotnet ef database update

To Run Application

• Navigate to Factory production folder in terminal

• To download obj and bin files needed for the program to run, while still in Chat folder type into the terminal:

  dotnet restore

• To run the program, while still in the Chat directory type into the terminal:

  dotnet run

Note: The server will not open automatically. The user will need to click on the live share link in terminal, or enter 'localhost:5000' URL into browser.

Known Bugs

• Project needs notification method

License

*MIT Licenced *Copyright (c) 2021 Jacob Wilson, Matt Luker, Skylar Brockbank