[CMS] Dusk [ASP .NET Core / EF Core / Comet]

Dusk CMS
Powered by ASP .NET Core & Entity Framework Core


Summary
Dusk is a Content Management System coded in C# on top of the ASP .NET Core web stack. It takes full advantage of Entity Framework Core and it's ORM capabilities (though not as fast as Dapper it'll do for this use case) and the advantages of the rich (though still growing) .NET Core platform as a result. Currently the focus is on supporting Comet Emulator's database schema. This will change in the future, but for now it is not a top priority.

It is licensed under the MIT License, merely retaining a copyright notice of credit to the original project is all that's necessary to be in compliance with the license, that and understanding that we (past, present and future contributors) do not provide any warranty whatsoever as stated in the MIT License. So don't be a jerk, just leave "Dusk CMS" at the footer of your hotel, or in some "About" page at the very least if you deviate from our goals.

Usability Status
Currently this project is not usable for a live hotel, it is in it's very early infancy stage.


Repository & Code Contributions
All code is under version control on BitBucket and available from every stage of development to everyone interested (including all my screw ups!). The way it works is there are two main branches: master and development the rest are ticketed / personal branches based out of the development branch. Anyone is allowed to contribute, just note your code will be peer reviewed before being approved into the development branch, there will be further documentation on contributing later, for now either go on the team Discord or PM me on here (not sure if allowed to just post a Discord or not).

Bitbucket Source found here:
https://bitbucket.org/team-comet/dusk/

Goals
Every project must have a set of goals in order to be considered worthwhile:

1. The primary goal of Dusk is for everyone involved to learn new things.
   
2. Second goal is to have fun working on Dusk.
   
3. The third goal is to push the source code as far as it can go with the current chosen toolset, this keeps us from getting into framework / library e-penis debates.

I have been doing Software Development in the industry and I wish to bring some of those standard ways of developing to streamline the code contribution process.

I also intend to add extended features that can be toggled on or off such as RPG focused features and the first expansion goal will be to to support more emulators than just Comet. Ideally we want to be a one stop shop as far as a CMS goes (as ambitious as this may sound). No unnecessary PHP nonsense, just pure .NET at it's (potential) finest.

If people don't want to use it, that's also fine. I will not be bothered by this. Feel free to critique the code and make suggestions, if you critique without actual code reference or documented reference your post will be ignored, if you persist I will simply report you.


Current Progress
Currently the project has basic login / registration. I've added support for Pomelo which is a library that adds MySQL support to EntityFrameworkCore as a result of Comet using MySQL. A new "Area" was also added, mostly it's just a dive into how to use Areas as suggested by Joopie. The rest is basic and bare bones. If you're accustomed to setting up an ASP .NET Core application you have to setup your own migration (the Migrations folder is .gitignore'd for sanity's sake). My next set of goals is to add some database models for Comet, at least some simple ones.

Libraries Used


Screenshots
Login View:

Spoiler:

https://i.imgur.com/dCS79zD.png

Edit User View:

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https://i.imgur.com/E21CYau.png

Shoutouts to Project Supporters / Maintainers
Joopie
Leon

Thanks,
Moogly

I-Is that design serious or just an april fools joke?

I preffer Plus instead because Comet Server with a website in ASP.NET sounds just horrible. However interesting development. Can't wait to see more, I will keep an eye on this :love:

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Originally Posted by pel

I-Is that design serious or just an april fools joke?

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Its called minimalism, not realism.

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Originally Posted by pel

I-Is that design serious or just an april fools joke?

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The design is the least important thing for the development right now and can be done later or even left for the end user to customize themself.

Looks interesting good luck!

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Originally Posted by Haidyn

The design is the least important thing for the development right now and can be done later or even left for the end user to customize themself.

Looks interesting good luck!

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Correct, and that is one of the intended goals. I will probably wind up listing some of the tickets on this thread to reflect that.

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Originally Posted by Chapo

I preffer Plus instead because Comet Server with a website in ASP.NET sounds just horrible. However interesting development. Can't wait to see more, I will keep an eye on this :love:

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You're free to use whatever CMS you wish. It's not horrible, ASP .NET Core is actually pretty damn clean and simple to work with compared to how cumbersome PHP can get sometimes, and it's a much better experience than doing JSP, I've had to port over a JSP application to Python due to how much of a mess it's legacy maintenance became. Companies pay big money for ASP .NET developers.

Feel free to contribute feature requests later on down the road as this project progresses further though. I would love to work on any changes to make it more competitive, but again everyone is free to use whatever they want to use. I love deployment of ASP .NET Core projects, it's just a simple git push and Azure kicks off a build, and once ready and the next user hits the web page it deploys.

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Originally Posted by pel

I-Is that design serious or just an april fools joke?

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No it is not a joke, ASP .NET Core defaults to using Bootstrap. I have not touched it yet since style is not a current top priority. See here for ticket issues. It will be part of the project to use different layouts though. I'm not heavy on front-end styling, but I do have experience doing front-end JavaScript (I just make things work man, idc how it looks basically). You're welcome to join the team and do one of the initial layouts for the project? If so I will bump up the priority for supporting multiple web styles.

I could of waited months to post this and have had some nicer styles but, I want to give anyone and everyone an opportunity to contribute, all you need is VS Code (100MB of a download) or Visual Studio 2017 (Community is what I'm using), Git and a BitBucket account and you're more than welcome to take a stab at contributing. If anyone is interested in learning a bit of web development feel free to join the Discord (it's on the repo readme) I'll do my best to mentor new contributions.

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Also, since I will likely work on this mostly on Sundays I will try to do livestreaming whilst working on this on Twitch if anyone is interested I will post the link whenever I go live.

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Originally Posted by Moogly

Also, since I will likely work on this mostly on Sundays I will try to do livestreaming whilst working on this on Twitch if anyone is interested I will post the link whenever I go live.

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Feel free to PM me a link as I'd be interested.

Why not the more widely used Arcturus Emulator database scheme? I prefer that more over trash Comet Emulator

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Originally Posted by Mustache

Why not the more widely used Arcturus Emulator database scheme? I prefer that more over trash Comet Emulator

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You can modify it to support the Arcturus database structure.

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Originally Posted by Mustache

Why not the more widely used Arcturus Emulator database scheme? I prefer that more over trash Comet Emulator

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This is also a current existing goal. If you want to contribute towards that ticket you can. No need to talk about other's hard work. When you work on software instead of spending your days critiquing projects you actually come to understand priorities. Arcturus is low on my list of priorities but yeah it will be supported eventually, just don't hold your breath for support unless you or someone else contributes towards that architecture of the project.

Looking sweet Moogly! I never got myself to try out ASP .NET Core, is it any stable? (I would assume it doesn't matter but I never trust Microsoft xp)
Love the minimalistic design :D

I did some updates on my moogly-development branch a while ago. I have not had a good chance to update anything significant currently. I'm evaluating another web stack to see if it's feasible to try out instead of .NET Core but until I can feel comfortable making a switch I will keep doing some changes on this. I will be sure to post an update if I make a switch. My focus is still ultimately to support Comet emulator and then eventually other emulators.

I thought the whole project goal was to take this as far as it could go within its current toolset. Regardless, it’s nice seeing some ASP development but it’s not my cup of tea :p good luck

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Originally Posted by LeChris

I thought the whole project goal was to take this as far as it could go within its current toolset. Regardless, it’s nice seeing some ASP development but it’s not my cup of tea :p good luck

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It is, but learning is the highest priority. I'm debating using Rust instead to really learn more about using Rust to build a full stack web application. It has more of a learning curve than anything I've ever used before.

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Originally Posted by Moogly

It is, but learning is the highest priority. I'm debating using Rust instead to really learn more about using Rust to build a full stack web application. It has more of a learning curve than anything I've ever used before.

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Yeah, use Rust, don't actually take Windows Server seriously, please don't.