🍽️ Restaurant Ordering System

A complete Restaurant Ordering System built with ASP.NET Core 7 (Web API), Entity Framework Core, SQL Server, AutoMapper, JWT Authentication, Clean Architecture, and Swagger UI.

This project is part of my portfolio to demonstrate backend architecture, clean coding practices, exception handling, authentication/authorization, and best practices in a real-world scenario.

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📊 Project Roadmap

Status	Feature/Module	Description
✅	Project Setup	ASP.NET Core 7 Web API project with Clean Architecture
✅	Database Connection	Configured SQL Server with Entity Framework Core
✅	Migrations & Seeding	Applied initial migrations to create database
✅	Authentication	Implemented JWT Authentication (Login/Register)
✅	Global Exception Handling	Custom middleware to catch and format all exceptions
✅	Product Module (CRUD)	Create, Read, Update, Delete APIs for Products
✅	Repository & Unit of Work Pattern	Abstracted data access using best practices
✅	AutoMapper Integration	Object mapping between Entities and DTOs
✅	Swagger UI	API documentation and testing through Swagger
⏳	Future Enhancements	Categories, Orders, and Admin Panel (TBD)

📚 Tech Stack

• Backend Framework: ASP.NET Core 7 Web API
• ORM: Entity Framework Core
• Authentication: JWT Bearer Authentication
• Mapping: AutoMapper
• API Testing: Swagger (Swashbuckle)
• Database: SQL Server
• Architecture: Clean Architecture (API Layer, Application Layer, Infrastructure Layer, Core Layer)

📊 Folder Structure

RestaurantOrderingSystem/
|-- Restaurant.API/            # Presentation Layer (Controllers, Middlewares)
|-- Restaurant.Application/    # Interfaces, DTOs, Business Logic Contracts
|-- Restaurant.Core/           # Entities (Domain Models)
|-- Restaurant.Infrastructure/ # Repositories, Services, EF DbContext

🔑 Key Features

• Secure JWT Authentication and Authorization
• Clean error handling with a Global Exception Middleware
• Modular, scalable architecture (separation of concerns)
• Repository Pattern and Unit of Work to manage DB transactions
• AutoMapper Profiles for clean DTO mapping
• Swagger UI for easy API testing

📅 Future Plans

• User Roles (Admin/Customer)
• Role-Based Authorization
• Product Categories
• Order Management (Cart, Checkout)
• Payment Gateway Integration
• Deployment to Cloud (AWS/Azure)

🚀 How to Run Locally

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/your-username/RestaurantOrderingSystem.git

2. Update your SQL Server connection string in appsettings.json.

3. Run Entity Framework migrations:

dotnet ef database update

4. Run the project:

dotnet run

5. Open Swagger UI at:

https://localhost:{port}/swagger