E-commerce Inventory API with JWT Auth
A secured ASP.NET Core Web API managing product inventory and stock levels, with JWT-based authentication, role-based authorization for admin vs viewer roles, and EF Core persistence. Learners practice ASP.NET Core identity/JWT setup, authorization policies, and layered API architecture.
- Estimate
- ~12.5h
- Steps
- 6
- Completed by
- 0
- Proposed by
- codeseed.app
ASP.NET Core · Entity Framework Core · JWT Bearer
Project roadmap
- 01
Scaffold the API and inventory models
~2hCreate the project with Product, Category, and StockMovement entities and EF Core migrations.
- 02
Implement JWT authentication
~2.5hAdd user registration/login endpoints issuing JWT tokens with configured expiry and signing key.
- 03
Add role-based authorization policies
~2hDefine admin and viewer roles and restrict write endpoints to admins using [Authorize] policies.
- 04
Implement inventory CRUD and stock adjustments
~2.5hBuild endpoints for managing products and recording stock in/out movements with quantity validation.
- 05
Add low-stock alerting endpoint
~1.5hAdd an endpoint that lists products below a configurable reorder threshold.
- 06
Write authorization-focused integration tests
~2hWrite tests verifying viewers are blocked from write endpoints while admins succeed.
Resources
- DocsC# Documentation
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