The front end uses Vue

npm install

npm run dev

npm run build

Steps taken to create this API.

• Run "dotnet new webapi -o ." to create new web api project in current folder
• Install dependencies "dotnet add package {package name}"
• MongoDB.Driver for connecting to MongoDB Atlas
• DotNetEnv for storing our MongoDB connection URI within a .env file to keep it hidden on GitHub

• Define MongoDB settings in appsettings.json
• The ConnectionString will come from the .env file that is ignored on github within the .gitignore file
• Create MongoDBSettings.cs class and add database settings ready to be linked in Program.cs

• Create new folder called Models and add a C# class file called book
• The book model has an Id, bookname, author, and isread

• Create MongoDB service to get the booklist collection
• Create one simple Get route service that returns all books in the DB

• Create BooklistController within Controllers folder
• This file holds all the Http requests and points them to the service code

• Add a line of code to link the MongoDBSettings class to the appsettings.json
• Add a line of code to add the BooklistService to the application so it can be used

• Before adding more routing the API will be tested to see it the MongoDB connection is working with the .env file
• Run application using "dotnet run"
• Because the api project was made using dotnet webapi we can go to the swagger interface to test this "localhost:0000/swagger"

• Run "npm create vue@latest" in app directory
• Install cors into the .NET backend to accept http requests from our front end