Build a Microservices app with .Net and NextJS from scratch

About this course

*** Course has now been updated for .Net 8, NextJS 14 and Next-Auth v8***Microservices is the latest 'buzzword' and hot topic in the web development industry at the moment and nowadays having microservices as part of your skillset is becoming more and more essential.  This course aims to teach you how to build a microservices based app using .Net for the backend services and Next.js for the client app.   We start from nothing and build up the app until we have a completed app that we can publish to a Kubernetes cluster on the internet.Here are some of the things that are covered in this course:Creating several backend services using .Net that provide functionality for the appService to service communication using RabbitMQ and gRPC Using IdentityServer as the identity provider. Creating a gateway using Microsoft YARPBuilding a client side app with Next.js using the new App Router functionality (since Next.js 13.4)Using SignalR for push notifications to the client appDockerizing our different servicesCI/CD workflows using GitHub actionsAdding ingress controllersPublishing the app locally using docker composeThe goals of the main part of this course is to build this app and be able to run and publish everything locally without having to sign up or pay for any cloud services.   Once you have completed the main part of the course there are 3 optional Appendixes that cover:Unit and integration testingPublishing locally to KubernetesPublishing the app to a Kubernetes cluster on the internetTools you need for this courseIn this course all the lessons are demonstrated using Visual Studio Code, a free (and fantastic) cross platform code editor