✨ Novels Collector Website (Backend) - Group 12 ✨

📖 A platform for searching and reading novels from multiple websites using hot-plugins in ASP.NET Core.

This is only the back-end part of the project. Please refer to https://github.com/thienan2003bt/Novels-Collector-FE for the front-end part. Thank you!

1. Technology stack information:

• Vietnamese name: Website Tổng hợp và đọc tiểu thuyết trực tuyến
• Front-end: React
• Back-end: ASP.NET Core
• Database: MongoDB

2. Installation guide:

To get the project up and running for the first time, follow these steps:

1. Build the solution:
   Navigate to the root directory of the project and run the following command to build the solution:

   dotnet build

2. Run the script to copy plugins into the core app:
   With local run, we have to install the plugins by hand:

   bash ./plugin-scripts/copy_source_plugins.sh
   bash ./plugin-scripts/copy_exporter_plugins.sh

3. Data migration
   Import .json files in mongodb-migrations/ folder to initialize the database.
4. Run the project:
   Start the project by using:

   dotnet run --project ./NovelsCollector.Core/NovelsCollector.Core.csproj

Alternatively, you can also build and run the solution with the GUI by opening BE.NovelsCollector.sln in Visual Studio IDE.