Learn C#Bot

This article provides a high level overview of the different technologies and frameworks used by C#Bot, along with resources to assist developers with becoming familiar with and start working with the bot.

Application Overview

The application consists of two parts,

• client-side - this manages the entirety of the presentation (HTML, Javascript and any styling)
• server-side - data access via API (REST and GraphQL).

The server-side is found within the server-side root directory under serverside/src.

The client-side for the entire project exists in the clientside directory of the project. There is no HTML rendering done in the server-side and all data is accessed from the API presented by the server-side.

External Resources

Server-Side

C# Language

• C# Tutorial - A good tutorial for C#.

Supporting Tools (Server-Side)

• ASP.NET - This is the server-side library that manages the request/response pipeline, handles controller actions, and manages user authentication.
• ASP.NET inside C# - A tutorial for using ASP.NET inside C#.

Data (Server-Side)

• Entity Framework Core - This library handles the database connection and data access layer of the application.
• GraphQL .NET - This library is used to build GraphQL schemas’ as well as queries and mutations that can be run.
• GraphQL.EntityFramework - Integrates GraphQL with the entity framework to provide efficient table joins when constructing large GraphQL queries.

Client-Side

React Framework

• React - React is the main DOM rendering library that is used inside of C#Bot.
• React Router - For page routing, C#Bot uses React Router

Supporting Tools (Client-Side)

• TypeScript - Instead of writing raw javascript for the clientside, C#Bot instead uses TypeScript, a superset of javascript that adds a full type system.
• MobX - For state management on the client-side C#Bot uses MobX, an observer library with tight integration with React.
• SCSS (Sass) - SCSS (or Sass) is a superset of CSS that is used for styling the client-side.

Data (Client-Side)

• Apollo GraphQL - Apollo is used to facilitate client-side communication with GraphQL API, which is presented by the server-side.

Testing

Testing Framework

• xUnit - xUnit and xUnit runner are the test framework and test runner used for C#Bot.
• SpecFlow 3 - SpecFlow is the framework used for writing Selenium based tests for C#Bot

Supporting Tools (Test Target)

• RestSharp - RestSharp is a C# library for sending API requests. It is used by the C#Bot testing target for API tests.