Useful Links

A curated list of websites and resources used in or relevant to this project.

.NET / ASP.NET

• ASP.NET — Microsoft's web framework for building modern web apps and APIs
• Aspire — .NET Aspire documentation and resources
• Blazor — .NET web framework for building interactive UI with C#
• LibMan — Lightweight client-side library acquisition tool for ASP.NET Core
• NodaTime — Date and time library for .NET with explicit timezone handling
• Npgsql — .NET data provider for PostgreSQL
• Reqnroll — BDD test automation framework for .NET (SpecFlow successor)
• Scalar — OpenAPI documentation and API client
• Testcontainers — Library for spinning up real Docker containers in tests (used for PostgreSQL integration tests)
• TUnit — Modern, async-first test framework for .NET
• Shouldly — Fluent assertion library for .NET

Infrastructure

• Docker — Container platform for building and running applications
• Helm — Package manager for Kubernetes
• OpenTelemetry — Observability framework for traces, metrics, and logs
• Keycloak — Open source identity and access management (authentication, SSO, OAuth2/OIDC)
• Kubernetes — Container orchestration platform
• LocalStack — Local AWS cloud service emulator (S3, SQS, and more)
• LocalStack Explorer — Web UI for browsing LocalStack resources
• OVHcloud — Cloud hosting provider (servers, managed Kubernetes, object storage)
• PostgreSQL — Open source relational database

Architecture

• ASP.NET Core repo structure (davidfowl) — Recommended C# repository layout for ASP.NET Core projects
• C4 Model — A model for visualising software architecture
• Structurizr — Tooling for creating C4 model diagrams as code

Security

• OWASP Top 10 — Standard reference for the most critical web application security risks

Tooling

• cdnjs — Free and open source CDN for JavaScript libraries
• CodeQL — Semantic code analysis engine for security scanning
• DocFX — Static documentation site generator for .NET projects
• GitHub Actions — CI/CD automation platform
• JetBrains Rider — Cross-platform .NET IDE
• NuGet — .NET package manager
• SonarCloud — Cloud-based static code analysis for code quality and security (free for public repositories)
• SonarQube — Self-hosted version of Sonar's static code analysis platform