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How to Add a UI or Dashboard as Middleware in your .NET Web API
User Interfaces
Let's see how we can add a dashboard or other UI to our web api (like swagger or the hangfire dashboard) using raw HTML or React.
Paul DeVito
How to Access HttpContext and Other Services for Dependency Injection with Hangfire
Performance
A guide on creating a job context for Hangfire, which enables access to HttpContext and other injectable services in your background jobs.
How to Setup Integration Tests in .NET Without a WebApplicationFactory
Testing
How to set up an integration test project without dealing with a WebApplicationFactory.
How Hangfire Helps Your .NET API Perform Out-of-Process Tasks with Resilience and Speed
A writeup on what I've come to find as essential tool to have in your toolkit for managing out-of-process jobs *within* a given application.
Creating a Standalone Duende BFF for any SPA
Security
Let's expand on the prior Duende BFF post and see how to set up a standalone Duende BFF that works with any SPA!
.NET Domain Events Using MediatR
DDD
Learn how to publish events inside your boundaries and decouple your entities.
Scaffold a Duende BFF with React and Vite into Any .NET 6 Project
See how you can scaffold a Duende BFF and React boilerplate into any .NET project!
Building an Event Driven .NET Application: Integration Testing
Distributed Systems
The third post in the Building an Event Driven .NET Application series where dive into integration testing our producers and consumers.
Simplifying User and Role Based Permissions in .NET
Let's take a look at the current state of permissions and authorization in .NET and see how we can extend it just slightly for a huge benefit.
Craftsman v0.12 is out with .NET 6 scaffolding and more!
Releases
Craftsman v0.12 is out with .NET 6 scaffolding, in memory authorization server scaffolding, and lots of optimizations and improvements!
Using Duende BFF with React
Let's explore how to set up Duende BFF and integrate it with a React application!
Craftsman v0.10 - .NET 5 Event Scaffolding, Spectre Console, and More!
This new release for Craftsman brings event driven scaffolding to your .NET projects (and a ton more)!
Building an Event Driven .NET Application: Setting Up MassTransit and RabbitMQ
This is the second post in the Building an Event Driven .NET Application series. In this post, we’ll see how we can set up our MassTransit bus to send message to and receive messages from RabbitMQ.
Building an Event Driven .NET Application: The Fundamentals
This is the first post in the Building an Event Driven .NET Application series where we’ll lay the foundation for your event driven knowledge moving forward.
.NET Core Integration Tests using a Sql Server Database in Docker
Let's make our integration tests more reliable by dynamically spinning up a database in Docker that mimics production and makes your project easy to test on any dev box.
