This application is intended to demonstrate the basics of using Dapr to build a microservices application. It is the demo project for the Pluralsight Dapr 1 Big Picture, by Marcel de Vries and Dapr 1 Fundamentals course, by Mark Heath.

This branch is the "before" example - a version of the demo application that does not have Dapr installed at all. It is unable to send emails, and simply uses HTTP calls for all communication between microservices.

The recommended way for running locally is to use self-hosted mode (option 1). I have also managed to get it running in Docker Compose, although that option has not been tested so much.

Open three terminal windows. In the frontend folder run dotnet run. Do the same in the catalog and ordering folders. The ports used are specified in the PowerShell start up scripts. The frontend app will be available at http://localhost:5266/. The catalog service will be at http://localhost:5016/swagger/index.html, and the ordering service at http://localhost:5293/swagger/index.html

• The frontend microservice is a simple ASP.NET Core 6 website. It allows visitors to browse the catalog of events, and place an order for tickets
• The catalog microservice provides the list of events that tickets can be purchased for. To keep this demo as simple as possible, the catalog microservice returns a hard-coded in-memory list.
• The ordering microservice takes new orders. It receives the order via pub-sub messaging. It sends an email to thank the user for purchasing. A dapr output