🚀 ASP.NET Core RESTful API Skeleton

A lightweight starter template for building production-ready RESTful APIs with ASP.NET Core 9, including:

• ✅ Entity Framework Core + PostgreSQL (done)
• ✅ Authentication & RBAC Authorization (JWT-ready structure) (in progress)
• ✅ Request Validation using FluentValidation (in progress)
• ✅ Simple CRUD controller example (done)
• ✅ Dockerfile + Docker Compose (backend + Postgres + pgAdmin) (done)
• ✅ clean structure ready to extend (in progress)

📦 Features Included

🔹 RESTful API Structure

Basic CRUD controller to demonstrate routing, DTOs, models, and service structure.

🔹 FluentValidation

Centralized validation for incoming API requests.

🔹 Authentication & Authorization

Skeleton structure to plug in:

• JWT tokens
• Admin/user roles
• Auth middleware

🔹 Docker Support

Runs using Docker Compose with:

• Backend service
• PostgreSQL database
• pgAdmin for DB management

🚀 Running the Project

Local (without Docker)

dotnet restore
dotnet ef database update
dotnet run

With Docker Compose

docker compose up --build

Backend runs on: http://localhost:8080
Postgres on: localhost:5433 (or 5432 inside Docker)
pgAdmin on: http://localhost:3060

🗄️ Database Configuration

Configured via appsettings.json or environment variables:

Host=database;Port=5432;Database=library_db;Username=library_user;Password=library_password;

📁 Project Structure

/Controllers      → API endpoints
/Models           → Entities
/Data             → DbContext
/Validators       → FluentValidation
/Auth             → Auth logic structure
Dockerfile
docker-compose.yml

🤝 Purpose of This Repo

This repository serves as a clean skeleton to start any ASP.NET Core backend project with:

• Auth/authz foundations
• Validation
• Dockerized environment
• CRUD examples
• EF Core setup

You can clone it as a starting point for new services or learning.

📋 What I Can Generate For You

• ✅ A clean app structure
• ✅ Recommended folder structure
• ✅ Auth/login/register implementation
• ✅ Ready-to-use JWT logic
• ✅ Ready-to-use migrations setup and db connections
• ✅ Ready-to-use docker and docker compose setup

Just tell me!