PingPong is a web application that ranks ping pong players and is built with .Net Core, React and PostgreSQL.

1. Install Prerequisites:

   a. Download and install the .Net Core SDK

   b. Download and install Node.js

   c. Download and install PostgreSQL

2. Clone this repo:

   git clone https://github.com/WalterSharpJr/ping-pong.git

   cd ping-pong

3. Prepare the database:

   a. Ensure the design time service has the correct connection string (We'll need this to run migrations on the DB):

   Open up ./PingPong.Data/PingPongDesignTimeContext.cs and change line 14, setting the Username and Password attributes to authenticate with your PostgreSQL server:

    optionsBuilder.UseNpgsql("Host=localhost;Database=PingPong;Username=[Username];Password=[Password];");
   

   b. Update the database by running the following 2 commands:

   cd ./PingPong.Data

   dotnet ef database update

   c. Ensure the API has access to your database by updating the Main connection string in ./PingPong.API/appsettings.Development.json

4. Start the API server by running the following commands:

   cd ../PingPong.API

   dotnet run

5. Start the web client by running:

   cd ../PingPong.Web

   npm install

   npm start

Test cases can be run with the follwoing commands:

cd ./PingPong.Business.Tests

dotnet test