yaseribrahim / ImageRepository

A simple .NET API to store and fetch images

Image Repository

Image Repository API that captures the following use cases from the Shopify developer challenge:

• ADD image(s) to the repository
  • upload a single image at a time
  • private or public (permissions)
  • secure uploading and stored images

Design

Some interesting things I explored while building this API:

1. Use Entity Framework Core for persistence
2. Implement Unit of Work and Repository design patterns
3. Use JSON Web Tokens for endpoint authorization
4. Setup Swagger to have a friendly api interface

Run

Make sure you have .NET 5. You can download it here.

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/yaseribrahim/ImageRepository.git

Run the project

dotnet run

The Swagger UI webpage at https://localhost:5001 should open

To make requests with authorization headers

1. Get JWT by signing up/logging in
2. Hit Authorize Button and enter token

Notes

I wrote a blog post while working on this project: https://yaseribrahim.medium.com/simple-jwt-authentication-with-swagger-for-net-web-api-35595c151c7c