Objectives

The main goal of this project was to create a solid website base that I could use for any future projects. I also wanted to explore some of the open source .net core features like entity framework core and signalR.

Technology stack

• Front End: React & Redux with Material-UI styling deployed onto AWS S3 with Cloudfront

• Back End: .Net Core 2.2 web api deployed on an AWS EC2 windows server instance running IIS

• Database: PostgreSQL running on AWS RDS

Features

User Authentication

• Uses JWT for a stateless design

• Email comfirmation built in using JWT and AWS SES

• Google OAuth optional for signing in / registering

Live Chat System

• SignalR for web sockets Allows guests and authenticated users to communicate in real time