This is simple blogging web app which allows users to write and publish articles.

You can run this app with just F5 in VS2022 or with dotnet run command. username = dhiraj password = password

• Landing page
  • Featuring top 4 most viewed popular articles on top showing 1st image from that article.
  • List of all the published articles with its short summary and total views (which updates in realtime), Author name and published date.
  • Recently published 3 articles on the right side which updates in realtime without refreshing user's webpage.
  • Search functionlaity to search published posts by title.
  • Tag cloud - where you can click on a Tag to get all the posts tagged under that tag.
• Publisher dashboard
  • This is authenticated page user needs to login to get access to this page.
  • Publisher can see list of all the published and unpublished articles on this page.
  • Article views which updates in realtime when some user view that article.
  • Publisher can create and save article without publishing it righaway.
  • Edit and create functinality where user can edit or create new article with fully functional TinyMCE rich text editor.
  • User can publish or unpublish the articles from this dashboard
• Realtime notification (Make sure you open the app in at least two browser tabs to see realtime notifications in action)
  • When users view the article, view count for that article gets updated in realtime to all the other online users.
  • When publisher publishes new article all the online users gets notification popup in realtime (on right bottom corner of browser).
  • When publisher publishes new article the recent posts section gets updated in realtime for all the online users without refreshing the webpage.

• Written in Asp.Net MVC with .Net 6
• Used Sqlite local database as data storage with EFCore 6 ORM
• Used Cookie based authentication to authenticate publisher
• Used Repository pattern to make code decoupled and testable
• Added few unit tests using XUnit to makesure controller and repository are testable.
• Used SignalR for realtime notification features
• Used TinyMCE WYSIWYG rich text editor
• Html template used - https://templatemo.com/live/templatemo_551_stand_blog