What is Kavita built with?
Kavita is a C# repo built with ASP.NET Core, Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting, Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles, and Angular. It stores its data in SQLite, reaches it with Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design and Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore, signs people in with Microsoft.Extensions.Identity.Stores, System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.OpenIdConnect, and Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore, makes its content with HtmlAgilityPack, CsvHelper, YamlDotNet, Markdig, and MailKit, is tested with coverlet.collector, Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk, xunit.assert, xunit.runner.visualstudio, NSubstitute, and 2 more, deploys with Serilog.AspNetCore, Serilog.Enrichers.Thread, Serilog.Extensions.Hosting, Serilog.Settings.Configuration, Serilog.Sinks.Console, and 2 more, and uses Microsoft.Data.Sqlite and Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite. It has 278,372 written lines, with 175 test files.
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Frontend
The base 1
- Angular585 files · in UI/Web/package.json
Styles 1
- Bootstrap1 file
Interface 8
@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap123 files
- @angular/cdk6 files
echarts4 files
quill1 file
screenfull1 file
- Swiper1 file
- @iplab/ngx-color-picker2 files
- ngx-infinite-scroll1 file
Backend
The base 1
Data 3
- SQLite2 files · Kavita.Services/DebugExport/ExportDatabaseScrubService.cs, line 24
- Microsoft.Data.Sqlite
- Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite
Data access 2
- Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore386 files
- Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design
Sign-in 5
- System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt7 files
- Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer1 file
- Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.OpenIdConnect1 file
- Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore1 file
- Microsoft.Extensions.Identity.Stores
Support
The base 2
- Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting16 files
- Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles3 files
Content 5
- HtmlAgilityPack11 files
- CsvHelper6 files
- YamlDotNet5 files
- Markdig4 files
- MailKit1 file
Testing 7
- NSubstitute75 files
- xunit75 files
- Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions6 files
- coverlet.collector
- Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk
- xunit.assert
- xunit.runner.visualstudio
Deploy 7
- Serilog8 files
- Serilog.AspNetCore
- Serilog.Enrichers.Thread
- Serilog.Extensions.Hosting
- Serilog.Settings.Configuration
- Serilog.Sinks.Console
- Serilog.Sinks.File
Tools 3
- jsonminify1 file
- BenchmarkDotNet
- BenchmarkDotNet.Annotations
Other 15
rxjs171 files
@microsoft/signalr1 file
- AutoMapper.Extensions.Microsoft.DependencyInjection57 files
- luxon7 files
- nosleep.js2 files
- SharpCompress2 files
- file-saver1 file
- Microsoft.Extensions.FileProviders.Physical1 file
- Microsoft.IO.RecyclableMemoryStream1 file
- Polly1 file
- Swashbuckle.AspNetCore1 file
- DotNet.Glob
- Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Abstractions
- Newtonsoft.Json
- System.Drawing.Common
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