WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:00.240 Okay. 00:00.270 --> 00:06.600 Our final task of this section is to save our hard work into source control. 00:06.600 --> 00:09.030 And there's many good reasons to do this. 00:09.060 --> 00:10.800 It makes our code more portable. 00:10.800 --> 00:17.070 And if we change or move on to a different computer, we can simply clone our project from a publicly 00:17.070 --> 00:18.150 available repository. 00:18.180 --> 00:22.470 We don't need to copy our files across a network onto a hard drive. 00:22.470 --> 00:29.460 Whatever method we choose, we can simply get our latest version of our code from a public repository. 00:29.490 --> 00:36.450 Also, if disaster happens and our computer dies along with our hard drive, then we've got an easy 00:36.480 --> 00:37.860 way to recover our code. 00:37.860 --> 00:43.440 It's still a disaster in terms of the computer breaking, but our code is safe because we've saved it 00:43.440 --> 00:48.150 into a cloud based repository for storing our code. 00:48.150 --> 00:49.410 And we'll do that now. 00:49.410 --> 00:54.720 And we'll do this every time we reach certain milestones in this course, such as when we get to the 00:54.720 --> 00:55.830 end of a section. 00:55.830 --> 01:03.530 So inside VS code, we do have a source control tab and we do need to have git installed into our computer 01:03.530 --> 01:06.560 to see what I'm seeing right here. 01:06.590 --> 01:10.100 So please ensure that you do have git installed from git. 01:11.390 --> 01:15.710 And if you have, then you'll see this option to initialize the repository. 01:15.710 --> 01:17.330 So I'm going to click this button. 01:17.330 --> 01:22.820 And this effectively starts tracking all of our code inside our project. 01:22.850 --> 01:27.590 Now it's currently tracking too much because there's a lot of code inside here that we didn't write 01:27.620 --> 01:28.640 ourselves. 01:28.640 --> 01:30.350 And this is stuff that the. 01:30.530 --> 01:33.500 Net compiler creates on our behalf. 01:33.500 --> 01:39.290 Now we don't need to save things that we haven't generated ourselves, or written the code ourselves 01:39.290 --> 01:40.580 into source control. 01:40.640 --> 01:44.870 That just makes our project bigger and more noisy than it needs to be. 01:44.870 --> 01:48.980 So we don't need all of these changes that it's picked up so far. 01:48.980 --> 01:55.040 But there is something that we can use from the dotnet SDK to help us reduce that noise. 01:55.130 --> 02:02.010 And I'll just open up a new tab inside here, and I need to go up to the solution level. 02:02.040 --> 02:05.190 So please make sure you're at the restore folder level. 02:05.190 --> 02:12.090 And if I just type in dotnet new list, then one of the things that we can use inside here is this dotnet. 02:12.120 --> 02:13.830 Gitignore file. 02:13.830 --> 02:15.870 And this will ignore the common things. 02:15.870 --> 02:21.810 We want to not save into a public GitHub repository and reduce the number from 165. 02:21.840 --> 02:24.030 In my case to something a bit more manageable. 02:24.030 --> 02:28.680 So we're going to use this and inside the terminal. 02:28.680 --> 02:30.840 And please make sure you're at your solution level. 02:30.840 --> 02:34.140 When you do this we're going to say dotnet new. 02:34.170 --> 02:37.560 Gitignore and press return. 02:37.590 --> 02:39.150 This creates that file. 02:39.150 --> 02:44.550 And notice that this is now reduced from one in my case 165 to 18. 02:44.550 --> 02:51.360 And these are the files where we do have or code that we do want to save into source control. 02:51.390 --> 02:58.500 Now at this stage as well, we might want to exclude further elements from inside here. 02:58.530 --> 03:04.110 Now we don't necessarily we wouldn't normally store a database inside a public repository, so we might 03:04.110 --> 03:05.580 want to exclude the database. 03:05.580 --> 03:06.750 You can do if you want. 03:06.780 --> 03:10.350 I'm just going to leave it there because that makes the code even more portable. 03:10.350 --> 03:14.520 If I move on to another computer, then I've already got the database there as well. 03:14.550 --> 03:18.210 But as we've seen, we can easily create this regardless. 03:18.210 --> 03:22.050 So it's not essential to store the database file there, but it's up to you. 03:22.080 --> 03:27.720 One thing that I would recommend that you remove so that you've got a place to store secret information, 03:27.750 --> 03:29.130 things like API keys. 03:29.160 --> 03:31.500 Is this appsettings.json? 03:31.500 --> 03:38.580 If we exclude this from our public GitHub repository, then it becomes a kind of safe place to store 03:38.610 --> 03:42.180 API keys for services that we might use later on. 03:42.210 --> 03:46.050 So I'm going to right click this file and say add to. 03:46.080 --> 03:51.330 Gitignore to exclude it from what we save into our source control. 03:51.360 --> 03:55.140 But everything else is fine and we would want to save. 03:55.170 --> 03:59.760 So if we do move on to another computer then it's pretty easy to get back up and running because we'll 03:59.760 --> 04:04.890 get all of these files easily accessible to us whenever we need to. 04:04.920 --> 04:07.830 So we'll give it a commit message, which we enter in this box. 04:07.830 --> 04:11.430 And I'm just going to say end of section two in this case. 04:11.430 --> 04:13.260 And then I'm going to click commit. 04:13.260 --> 04:16.620 And not yet actually we need to stage the changes. 04:16.620 --> 04:20.580 So where we've got changes let's just click this plus button. 04:20.580 --> 04:23.130 And this stages those changes. 04:23.130 --> 04:24.990 And then we can commit. 04:24.990 --> 04:27.660 And then we can publish our code to GitHub. 04:27.660 --> 04:30.420 But before we do that let's go to GitHub itself. 04:30.420 --> 04:32.700 And please go to github.com. 04:32.700 --> 04:39.840 And if you do not have an account with GitHub please go ahead and create one and get yourself to the 04:39.840 --> 04:42.060 roughly the page I'm on now. 04:42.060 --> 04:46.680 And then we can click the plus button and we'll say new repository. 04:46.680 --> 04:52.710 And I'm going to give it a name of restore which is already gone because I'm updating this course and 04:52.710 --> 04:55.860 really creating a new version of this training course. 04:55.860 --> 05:02.580 So I'm going to say Dash v2 for this one, and I'm going to leave it as public, which means anyone 05:02.610 --> 05:04.530 on the internet can see this repository. 05:04.530 --> 05:08.490 But you choose who can make changes, who can commit to this repository. 05:08.490 --> 05:11.100 And I'm going to say create repository. 05:11.100 --> 05:16.740 And once this has been done then we've got our git init git add readme. 05:16.770 --> 05:17.760 But we won't do that. 05:17.790 --> 05:21.480 We've done our git commits the git branch. 05:21.480 --> 05:24.000 We might want to change that if we need to. 05:24.030 --> 05:30.810 And if I take a look at my terminal, I can see that the branch name has been called main. 05:30.810 --> 05:33.870 If yours has been called master, you might want to run this command. 05:33.870 --> 05:40.440 Just say git branch main, which will effectively change it to main if it hasn't been done so already, 05:40.440 --> 05:44.370 as master is going to get removed from the terminology at some point in the future. 05:44.370 --> 05:47.280 And then we have git remote add origin. 05:47.280 --> 05:54.390 Just copy this line into your clipboard and go back to the terminal and just paste in that line to add 05:54.390 --> 05:59.190 the remote address of your GitHub repository and press return. 05:59.640 --> 06:03.550 And then we can use the publish branch option. 06:03.550 --> 06:05.350 So I'll click Publish Branch. 06:05.470 --> 06:09.610 And you may have to authenticate with GitHub at this point. 06:09.790 --> 06:12.430 And once you've done that you should be able to go back to the browser. 06:12.430 --> 06:18.370 Refresh the page and you should see your code inside the public GitHub repository. 06:18.370 --> 06:24.160 And if you did want to move on to another computer, then your code is very easily accessible. 06:24.160 --> 06:32.830 Just click this green button, copy the link, and then inside the terminal you can just say git clone 06:32.830 --> 06:35.440 followed by the address that you've done there. 06:35.440 --> 06:40.840 I'm not going to do that because I don't want another copy of my project inside this folder, but that's 06:40.840 --> 06:45.460 how you would move your code onto a different computer once you've committed it into GitHub. 06:45.460 --> 06:51.490 So that brings us to the end of this first coding section where we've set up our API. 06:51.490 --> 06:57.610 And now we're ready to really start creating our user interface side of our project. 06:57.610 --> 07:01.480 And before we get to that, we'll just wrap up this section with a summary.