Meal Planner Backend

This is the backend API for the Meal Planner project.

Setups:

1. Clone the repository
2. Install .NET 8.0 (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/sdk-8.0.203-windows-x64-installer)
3. Open the solution MPWebApi. You can now run the solution using Visual Studio
4. Set Up Database

Database Setup

The project utilizes MySQL as the core database for the whole project. For simplicity, Docker would be used to launch the the database. In order to run MySQL using Docker, please following the below steps:

1. Install Docker

For Docker installation, please refer to the official Docker Engine Installation

2. Install Docker-Compose

Docker-Compose library is would be readily installed when we use Docker Desktop. In case you could not successfully find Docker-Compose in your machine. Please following the Docker Compose Installation

3. Set Up MySQL for Local Development

After completing the above two steps, from the root directory (where the docker-compose.yml is located) of this repository, run the below commands to run MySQL. The database port would be exposed via port 3306. You can change database port into different one by editing the docker-compose.yml file.

docker compose up -d

or

docker-compose up -d