Clean Architecture Demo

A sample application for Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, and Principles using Microsoft .NET 9.0.

This sample application is intended to be a learning tool for clean architecture practices. It incorporates several of these practices in a way that is simple and easy to understand.

If you'd like to learn more about this style of software architecture, please check out my online course Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, and Principles.

Variations

There are three variations of this project to demonstrate various practices:

• main - contains the simplest implementation used to demonstrate the practices taught in the course at the expense of a bit of coupling with the Entity Framework abstractions

• dbset-adaptor - uses a database adapter to completely decouple the application from the persistence layer -- a cleaner but slightly more complex approach

• repo-and-uow - uses the repository and unit of work patterns to completely decouple the application from the persistence layer -- an even cleaner but also more complex approach

Technologies

This demo application uses the following technologies:

• .NET Core 9.0
• C# .NET 13.0
• ASP.NET Core MVC 9.0
• EF Core 9.0
• Visual Studio 2022
• SQL Server 2022
• Scrutor 6.0
• NUnit 4.3
• Moq 4.20
• SpecFlow 3.9

Other Versions

For other versions of this sample application, please see the following:

• .NET 8.0
• .NET 6.0
• .NET 4.8
• .NET 4.5