Flowboard Backend (ASP.NET Core 9) ✅

Overview

A simple REST API backend for Flowboard — a project management system built with ASP.NET Core 9 and MongoDB. It provides authentication (JWT), user/project/task management, analytics, and an OpenAPI interface for development.

Quick Start 🔧

1. Copy or create a .env file in the backend folder (an example .env is already included).
2. Ensure you have the .NET 9 SDK installed.
3. Run the API:

cd Flowboard-Project-Management-System-Backend
dotnet restore
dotnet run

Or use the workspace task: Run All or the Backend: dev task.

The app reads environment variables from .env (via DotNetEnv). HTTPS port and other settings can be set there (the repository example uses ASPNETCORE_HTTPS_PORT=7076).

API Documentation & Examples

See Apis.http in this folder for example API requests and documentation. You can use this file with VS Code REST Client or similar tools to test endpoints quickly.

Key Dependencies (from *.csproj) 📦

• BCrypt.Net-Next — password hashing
• DotNetEnv — loads .env files into environment variables
• Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer — JWT authentication
• Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi — OpenAPI integration for development
• MongoDB.Driver — MongoDB client
• System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt — JWT token handling

These are added in Flowboard-Project-Management-System-Backend.csproj.

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OpenAPI / Development UI

OpenAPI is enabled in development (Program.cs uses AddOpenApi() and MapOpenApi()). You can view the generated OpenAPI docs during development.

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Contributing

Feel free to open issues or create PRs to improve the API, add tests, or harden security (rate-limiting, stronger validation, roles, etc.).

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Made for Flowboard — lightweight project management API. 🚀