SunEngine – Site engine that supports forums, articles and blogs

SunEngine

Site engine with support of blog, forum and articles functionality.

About project

Core modules

• Articles
• Forum
• Blogs

Friendly interface

• Single-page application with a beautiful interface.
• Works on personal computers, tablets and mobile phones.

Made with love ❤

• Beautiful code that we constantly improve.
• We are open to new ideas for improving code and architecture.

Key technologies

The project uses modern and beautiful technologies.

• Asp.Net Core 3.0
• Linq2db — database framework.
• FluentMigrator — database migrations.
• VueJs — SPA-based client side.
• Quasar Framework — vue components.
• Database — any compatible with Linq2db and FluentMigrator.

Performance

• Fast data access based on linq2db.
• Single-page application loads only necessary data, without extra requests.
• Efficient caching.

Flexible configuration of user role rights

• Opportunity for each section — site's category — set different access rights for different groups of users.

Admin panel

• Edit site sections — categories.
• Edit site menu.
• Edit user roles.
• Customize caching.

Deployment

• Works on Windows, Linux and macOS.
• Compatible with most relational databases.

Launch prerequisites

SunEngine can be launched on Windows, Linux and macOS.

To run the project you need to install:

• .NET Core 3.0 + ASP.NET Core Runtimes
• NodeJs
• Npm (will already be installed along with NodeJs)
• Quasar CLI npm install -g @quasar/cli

Launch for development

Launch from console

1. Download the project code from the official repository https://github.com/sunengine/SunEngine (if not done)
2. Rename files and folders with the suffix -template , and remove this suffix. (if not done)
3. Go to folder SunEngine/SunEngine.Cli .
4. Create a database SunEngine in the selected DBMS. (if not done)
5. Register the provider name and connection string in the file SunEngine/SunEngine.Cli/Config/DataBaseConnection.json .
6. Fill the database with initial data dotnet run migrate init seed (if not done).
7. Run server dotnet run server .
8. Go to folder SunEngine/Client .
9. Install npm modules npm install (if not done yet).
10. Run client quasar dev — browser will be opened.

Contacts

• Dimitrij Polianin
• Telegram: @okeanij
• Project's Telegram group: @SunEngine