start_services_with_dapr.md

Starting Services with Dapr

Getting started

1. Open the services.json in the solution folder, then update the following settings

   "EnabledTye": false 

2. Install Dapr by dapr init

3. After started infrastructure with the following command, It'll open web browser automatically with the dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:8000/

   tye run .\tye-min.yaml --dashboard

   

4. Run the following commands in separate Windows Powershell

   1. Start products-api

      dapr run --app-id products-api --app-port 5001 --log-level debug `
      --components-path .\components --config .\components\simplestore-dapr-config.yaml `
      dotnet run dotnet -- -p src\Services\ProductCatalog\SimpleStore.ProductCatalogApi

   2. Start inventories-api

      dapr run --app-id inventories-api --app-port 5002 --log-level debug `
      --components-path .\components --config .\components\simplestore-dapr-config.yaml `
      dotnet run dotnet -- -p src\Services\Inventories\SimpleStore.InventoriesApi

   3. Start graphql-api

      dapr run --app-id graphql-api --app-port 5000 --log-level debug `
      --components-path .\components --config .\components\simplestore-dapr-config.yaml `
      dotnet run dotnet -- -p src\Services\GraphQL\SimpleStore.GraphQLApi

   

Notes:

• Running this mode, we just use Tye as docker-compose to start infrastructure, i.e. seq and sqlserver

• All services, they are, graphql-api, products-api, inventories-api will be started with dapr run command with the predefined port as below

  • graphql-api: http://localhost:5000
  • products-api: http://localhost:5001
  • inventories-api: http://localhost:5002

• The port number is defined in services.json and it's also passed to dapr run commands while starting services

Experience our services via graphql

• Now, let open the graphql-api by clicking on the link http://localhost:5000 in the screenshot; then enjoy with some examples in here, for example

  

For Observability

Tracing

• Open the browser at - http://localhost:9411

  

Logging

• Open the seq's dashboard at - http://localhost:9431