[Update Course] Build a Microservices app with .Net and NextJS from scratch | Udemy

*** 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 app
• Service to service communication using RabbitMQ and gRPC
• Using IdentityServer as the identity provider.
• Creating a gateway using Microsoft YARP
• Building 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 app
• Dockerizing our different services
• CI/CD workflows using GitHub actions
• Adding ingress controllers
• Publishing the app locally using docker compose

The 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 testing
• Publishing locally to Kubernetes
• Publishing the app to a Kubernetes cluster on the internet

Tools you need for this course

In this course all the lessons are demonstrated using Visual Studio Code, a free (and fantastic) cross platform code editor.   You can of course use any code editor you like and any Operating system you like… as long as it’s Windows, Linux or Mac.  Please ensure that your computer can run Docker as this is a requirement for this course (please see the pre-requisite lesson available as a preview to confirm this).

Is this course for you?

This course is very practical, about 90%+ of the lessons will involve you coding along with me on this project.  If you are the type of person who gets the most out of learning by doing, then this course is definitely for you.

On this course we will build an example Auction Application with several services that we will use to provide its functionality.   For the client side of things we are using Next.js to take advantage of its client side and server side capabilities which is an excellent fit for what we are building.  All you will need to get started is a computer with your favourite operating system that is capable of running Docker, and a passion for learning how to build a microservies based application using .Net and Next.js.