🎟🗃 Event Manager — Events & Activities

A Full-Stack Web Application for discovering, creating and attending events and activities.
It ships with an ASP.NET Core REST API Backend, a React Front-End styled with Tailwind CSS, and MySQL Data Persistence.

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✨ Key Features

• Browse & Search - Explore and filter events by name, price bracket, date range, address, user and/or category.

• Engage with Postings - Set and change your attendance status, as well as give ratings to events/activities.

• Organizer Tools (Create / Delete) - Share and let other people know and attend events you are organizing by uploading images, sharing ticket types and prices and listing important information.

• Ticket Operations - Create, remove and book tickets.

• Email Notifications - Recieve personal account management confirmation emails.

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🏗️ Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Front-End	React, Vite, React-Router, Axios
Styling	Tailwind CSS
Backend	ASP.NET Core Web API, Entity Framework Core, MySQL, Cloudinary
Security	JWT Bearer Tokens
E-mail	SendGrid REST API

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🚀 Getting Started (Development)

Clone

git clone https://github.com/vasilev17/event-manager.git

Backend Setup

1. Create a appsettings.Development.json file
2. Copy the connection string part from appsettings.json into it
3. Enter the missing values from the connection string for your MySQL server installation
4. Run Update-Database command to update your database
5. Set up JWT
   5.1 Copy the "Jwt" section from appsettings.json to appsettings.Develoment.json
   5.2 Generate a signing key and put it in your appsettings.Development.json
   5.3 Put token duration in time span format
   5.4 Issuer and audience are the localhost addresses of the back-end and front-end
6. Set up the email sender
   6.1 Go to Emails with C# & SendGrid API and follow the steps for creating an API key
   6.2 Copy the "EmailSender" section from appsettings.json to appsettings.Develoment.json
   6.3 Ener the needed keys.

Front-End Setup

cd event-manager/FrontEndApp
npm install
npm run dev

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🎬 Showcase

Backend API

Front-End

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🧪 Testing

Unit and Integration tests are available in the /EventManager/EventManager.Tests directory