Getting Started

This tutorial assumes that you've already purchased an ABP Commercial license and have an active ABP Commercial account.

This document assumes that you prefer to use Blazor as the UI framework and Entity Framework Core as the database provider. For other options, please change the preference on top of this document.

Create the database

Database connection string

Check the connection string in the appsettings.json file under the .IdentityServer and .HttpApi.Host projects

"ConnectionStrings": {
  "Default": "Server=localhost;Database=BookStore;Trusted_Connection=True"
}

The solution is configured to use Entity Framework Core with MS SQL Server by default. EF Core supports various database providers, so you can use any supported DBMS. See the Entity Framework integration document to learn how to switch to another DBMS.

Apply the migrations

The solution uses the Entity Framework Core Code First Migrations. So, you need to apply migrations to create the database. There are two ways of applying the database migrations.

Apply migrations using the DbMigrator

The solution comes with a .DbMigrator console application which applies migrations and also seeds the initial data. It is useful on development as well as on production environment.

.DbMigrator project has its own appsettings.json. So, if you have changed the connection string above, you should also change this one.

Right click to the .DbMigrator project and select Set as StartUp Project

Hit F5 (or Ctrl+F5) to run the application. It will have an output like shown below:

Initial seed data creates the admin user in the database (with the password is 1q2w3E*) which is then used to login to the application. So, you need to use .DbMigrator at least once for a new database.

Using EF Core Update-Database command

Ef Core has Update-Database command which creates database if necessary and applies pending migrations.

Right click to the .HttpApi.Host project and select Set as StartUp Project:

Open the Package Manager Console, select .EntityFrameworkCore.DbMigrations project as the Default Project and run the Update-Database command:

This will create a new database based on the configured connection string.

Using the .DbMigrator tool is the suggested way, because it also seeds the initial data to be able to properly run the web application.

If you just use the Update-Database command, you will have an empty database, so you can not login to the application since there is no initial admin user in the database. You can use the Update-Database command in development time when you don't need to seed the database. However, using the .DbMigrator application is easier and you can always use it to migrate the schema and seed the database.

Run the application

Running the HTTP API Host (Server Side)

Tiered solutions use Redis as the distributed cache. Ensure that it is installed and running in your local computer. If you are using a remote Redis Server, set the configuration in the appsettings.json files of the projects below.

Ensure that the .IdentityServer project is the startup project. Run the application which will open a login page in your browser.

Use Ctrl+F5 in Visual Studio (instead of F5) to run the application without debugging. If you don't have a debug purpose, this will be faster.

You can login, but you cannot enter to the main application here. This is just the authentication server.

Ensure that the .HttpApi.Host project is the startup project and run the application which will open a Swagger UI:

You can see the application APIs and test them here. Get more info about the Swagger UI.

Authorization for the Swagger UI

Most of the HTTP APIs require authentication & authorization. If you want to test authorized APIs, manually go to the /Account/Login page, enter admin as the username and 1q2w3E* as the password to login to the application. Then you will be able to execute authorized APIs too.

Running the Blazor Application (Client Side)

Ensure that the .Blazor project is the startup project and run the application.

Use Ctrl+F5 in Visual Studio (instead of F5) to run the application without debugging. If you don't have a debug purpose, this will be faster.

Once the application starts, click to the Login link on to header, which redirects you to the authentication server to enter a username and password:

Enter admin as the username and 1q2w3E* as the password to login to the application.

The application is up and running. You can start developing your application based on this startup template.

Mobile Development

When you create a new application, the solution includes react-native folder by default. This is a basic React Native startup template to develop mobile applications integrated to your ABP based backends.

If you don't plan to develop a mobile application with React Native, you can safely delete the react-native folder.

You can specifying the -m none option to the ABP CLI to not create the react-native folder in the beginning.

See the Getting Started with the React Native document to learn how to configure and run the React Native application.

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