ChattingApp

Setup and installation

Install dotnet SDK -- version--5.0.101

Install node.js --version 14.10.0

For enforcing https, run

dotnet dev-certs https --trust

Install ef core

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef --version 5.0.1

Database Connection

Now put your database Connection string inside 'appsettings.Development.json' file of API folder which looks like,

    "DefaultConnection":"Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=chatingapp;Integrated Security=True;"
  }

Put your connection string to "DefaultConnection" variable.Here 'Data Source' contains the server name and 'Initial Catalog' contains database name.You should change those according to your connection string.

For migrations,

dotnet ef migrations add Testing

Finally update the database by running

dotnet ef database update

Install angular CLI

npm install -g @angular/cli

Run the project

dotnet run

Now here if you face any issue with the nuget packages run the command several times,it will work and install the necessary nuget packages.

Run the angular app

Now go to another terminal and go to the project's client folder and run

ng serve

to run the angular app.

Now our app will run at http://localhost:4200/

Browser

Google chrome is strongly recommended for this project for not to face any CORS issue.

Firefox and other browsers might cause CORS issue.

For checking/log in two users at a time you can go to google chrome Incognito mode.

If even google chrome facing CORS issue(it should not) you can go to the security disables chrome version simple running this command into WINDOWS+R (Run) command prompt,the command is,

chrome.exe --user-data-dir="C://Chrome dev session" --disable-web-security