Meow

Meow is a cute, friendly web platform for cats and their owners. In Meow, despite you can brag with your cats, you can also adopt a kitty and give it love, care and such nice things.

The project is a template for connection between cat owners and voluntary initiatives for cats.

General Requirements

The application is implemented during the course C# MVC Frameworks - ASP.NET Core using ASP.NET Core Framework and follows the requirements of the project assignment.

• View Engine for generating the UI – Razor
• Using sections and partial views, editor and display templates
• Database back-end – Microsoft SQL Server
• Database access – Entity Framework Core
• MVC Areas – area for administration and cats
• Managing users and roles – ASP.NET Identity System
• Unit tests for controllers and services - xUnit
• Error handling and data validation
• HTML crazy stuff (escaping)
• Dependency Injection
• AutoMapping
• Preventing from security vulnerabilities, like SQL Injection, XSS, CSRF – that’s for ASP. :)

Additional Requirements

Best practices for Object-oriented design and High-quality code

• Data encapsulation
• Exception handling
• OOP Principles
• Strong cohesion and loose coupling
• Correctly format and structure the code, naming identifiers and readable code
• Well looking user interface
• Good usability
• Supporting of all modern Web browsers
• Using caching where appropriate
• Using source control system - GitHub

Data Structure

In this cat database we have the following tables and relations:

Cats

• Home Cat - Name, Age, Image, Description, Location, Gender, Owner
• Adoption Cat - Name, Age, Image, Description, Location, Gender, IsAdopted, IsRequested, RequestedOwnerId, Owner

Users

• the default ASP.NET Identity System + Name, Location, Birthdate, Profile Photo, Gender, Home Cats, Adopted Cats

Relations

• one cat can have only one owner, and one owner can have many home and adopted cats

Business Logic

Anonymous users can:

• Register
• Login
• View kitties for adoption page
• View About page

Logged in users can:

• Logout
• Ask for adoption
• View users profiles
• View cats details
• CRUD operations of their cats

Volunteers can:

• CRUD operations of their cats and all cats for adoption
• Listing and managing cats for adoption
• Move kitty from for adoption to adopted

Administrators can:

• Manage all kitties
• Manage all users and set them roles

Team and Contribution

• @mdamyanova - idea of Meow, development of the project, defense, deploy, documentation, giving assignments
• @Dimitvp - refactoring, change structure of the projects, finding and fixing bugs, giving ideas for improvement
• @ddxkalin - refactoring, front-end stuff, seed objects, giving ideas for improvement, help for documentation
• iCatRescue - allowing using real cats who need love and care

Meow

Thank you for stopping by! They say Meow means 'I love you' in Kitty. So here's a dozen of Meows!🐈😻💕