E‑Commerce Application

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📌 Table of Contents

• Overview
• Demo
• Features
• Getting Started
• Usage Examples
• Project Structure
• Contributing
• License

🎯 Overview

A .NET 8 Web API for e-commerce built with EF Core 9 and SQL Server.
Supports user management, product catalog, shopping cart, orders, payment, and email notifications.

🎬 Demo

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✅ Features

• User registration, login, profile management, and password reset
• JWT authentication and role-based authorization
• Product catalog CRUD (admin-only for create/update/delete)
• Product image upload and serving from wwwroot/images/products
• Shopping cart: add, remove, and list items
• Order creation with pagination and payment method selection
• Contact form endpoint
• Email notifications via SendGrid (password resets, order confirmation)
• Swagger/OpenAPI documentation and JWT support in UI
• Middleware for custom logging, stats, and error handling
• EF Core with repository pattern for data access
• DTOs for clean data transfer between layers
• Secure password hashing using Identity
• AutoMapper integration
• Environment-based config (appsettings.*.json)
• Static file hosting
• Validation, error handling, and API-level pagination

🚀 Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/REPO.git
cd REPO
dotnet ef database update
dotnet run