GameDev Recipes is a web application primarily developed for managing and viewing game development tutorials found on Youtube.

The idea was implemented as I found the youtube playlist system to be lackluster. Having a large amount of videos in one playlist made finding specific tutorials difficult. Unless you created a new tab when selecting a video, the tab would change to the video player, this meant that you would need to reopen your playlist again from the beginning and scroll down to find additional videos.

Standard HTTP Operations (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE) are used to connect the frontend to the ASP.Net Core backend. The backend, built on ASP.NET Core's Web API, employs Entity Framework to interact with an MSSQL database. For the front-end, Angular is used along with Bootstrap and Angular Material libraries to enhance the functionality of the web application. Youtube's Data Api is used to retrieve video information from user-submitted links.

Full video demonstration can be found here

• Frontend: Angular, Angular Material, Bootstrap
• Backend: Asp.NET Core with Web API, Entity Framework and MSSQL database

• Ability To Search through videos using Tags.
• Add videos into database using submitting a youtube link
• Editing a video's tags or game engine
• Deletion of video in database

• Node.js and npm (Node Package Manager)
• Visual Studios
• MSSQL
• SQL Server Management Studio

Clone the repo using: git clone https://github.com/Carbine28/game-dev-recipes.git

1. Inside GameDevRecipes.API run the command npm install
2. In GameDevRecipes.API/src/app/services/video.service.ts change the port in baseApiUrl to the port for running the server later.
3. Run ng serve to build and start the angular app

1. Create and connect to a local db using SQL Server Management Studio
2. Rename appsettings - copy.json to appsettings.json
3. Inside appsettings.json replace the youtube api key with your own.
4. Also replace "server=localhost}... name with the name of your database created using MSSQL
5. Go to Tools > Nuget Package Manager > Manage Nuget Packes for solution... and install the following:

• Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer
• Microsoft.EnitityFrameworkCore.Tools
• Google.Apis.Youtube.v3

6. Go to Tools > Nuget Package Manager > Package Manager Console and enter the following commands to add a migration and update database

• Add-Migration
• Update-Database

7. Build the project and note down in Swagger UI console, the port number of the server.
8. Enter this port number in Front-End Setup Step 2.