DineSwift

DineSwift is a food ordering platform built with .NET 8. This repository contains:

• API/: ASP.NET Core Web API (auth, orders, restaurants, payments, search, etc.)
• MVC/: ASP.NET Core MVC web app (customer/restaurant/admin UI)
• Repository/: Data access / services layer used by the API

Screenshots

Landing Page	Restaurant Menu	Item Image

Tech Stack

• Backend: ASP.NET Core .NET 8 (Web API)
• Frontend: ASP.NET Core MVC (Razor Views), Kendo UI
• Database: PostgreSQL (via Npgsql)
• Caching / Session: Redis
• Messaging: RabbitMQ
• Payments: Stripe
• Search: Elasticsearch (NEST client)

Getting Started (Local Development)

1) Prerequisites

• .NET SDK 8.x
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• RabbitMQ
• (Optional, if you use search) Elasticsearch

2) Configure secrets (IMPORTANT)

This repo is set up to not commit secrets:

• Real config files like API/appsettings.json and MVC/appsettings.Development.json are ignored
• Safe templates are committed as *.example

Create your local config files by copying the templates:

• API/appsettings.json.example → API/appsettings.json
• API/appsettings.Development.json.example → API/appsettings.Development.json
• MVC/appsettings.json.example → MVC/appsettings.json
• MVC/appsettings.Development.json.example → MVC/appsettings.Development.json

Optional environment variable template:

• example.env → .env (the .env file is ignored by git)

3) Run the API

From the repo root:

dotnet restore
dotnet run --project API/API.csproj

The API exposes endpoints under:

• http://localhost:5245/api (based on MVC/appsettings.Development.json)

Ports can vary depending on your local launchSettings.json (which is ignored by git).

4) Run the MVC app

In a new terminal:

dotnet run --project MVC/MVC.csproj

Then open the MVC site in your browser (URL will print in the console output).

Repository Structure

DineSwift.sln
API/          # ASP.NET Core Web API
MVC/          # ASP.NET Core MVC UI
Repository/   # Shared repository/services layer
docs/
  screenshots/  # README screenshots only