DevHunter is a role-based IT recruitment platform built with ASP.NET Core MVC. Candidates can discover and apply for jobs, companies can manage offers and applicants, and administrators can maintain platform content.
The showcase is a static React site. The full ASP.NET MVC application runs locally.
| Area | Details |
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| Application | ASP.NET Core MVC on .NET 8 |
| Data | Entity Framework Core and SQL Server |
| Authentication | ASP.NET Core Identity with candidate, company, and admin roles |
| Testing | 177 automated tests |
| Delivery | GitHub Actions CI |
| Configuration | Local secrets managed with dotnet user-secrets |
| Security | Role checks and service-level ownership enforcement |
| Job discovery | Job details |
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| Candidate application | Company dashboard |
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| Company details | Admin panel |
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| Candidate | Company | Admin |
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| Search and filter job offers | Create and manage owned job offers | Manage users and companies |
| Save jobs for later | Review job applications | Manage technologies |
| Apply with documents | Approve or reject applicants | Manage development categories |
| Track submitted applications | Maintain company profile | Access role-protected admin tools |
Additional features include server-side pagination, HTML-sanitized job descriptions, Cloudinary uploads, and SMTP contact messages.
| Category | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Backend | C#, .NET 8, ASP.NET Core MVC |
| Data | Entity Framework Core, SQL Server |
| Identity and security | ASP.NET Core Identity, role authorization, HTML sanitization |
| Integrations | Cloudinary, MailKit |
| Testing | NUnit, Moq, in-memory test data |
| Delivery | GitHub Actions |
| Showcase | React, Vite, TypeScript |
- .NET 8 SDK
- SQL Server or SQL Server Express
- Optional Cloudinary account for uploads
- Optional SMTP account for contact messages
git clone https://github.com/hristianivanov/ITJob-Finder-ASP.NET-MVC.git
cd ITJob-Finder-ASP.NET-MVC/src
dotnet restore DevHunter.sln
cd DevHunter.Web
dotnet user-secrets set "ConnectionStrings:DefaultConnection" "your-sql-server-connection-string"
dotnet user-secrets set "AccountSettings:CloudName" "your-cloud-name"
dotnet user-secrets set "AccountSettings:ApiKey" "your-cloudinary-api-key"
dotnet user-secrets set "AccountSettings:ApiSecret" "your-cloudinary-api-secret"
dotnet user-secrets set "EmailConfiguration:To" "recipient@example.com"
dotnet user-secrets set "EmailConfiguration:SmtpServer" "smtp.example.com"
dotnet user-secrets set "EmailConfiguration:Port" "465"
dotnet user-secrets set "EmailConfiguration:UserName" "smtp-user@example.com"
dotnet user-secrets set "EmailConfiguration:Password" "your-smtp-password"
dotnet runConfiguration keys are documented in src/DevHunter.Web/appsettings.example.json. Do not commit real credentials.
Database migrations and seeded demo data are applied during startup.
cd src
dotnet build DevHunter.sln
dotnet test DevHunter.Services.Tests/DevHunter.Services.Tests.csprojcd showcase
corepack pnpm install
corepack pnpm build
corepack pnpm devThese accounts are created only for the seeded local demo environment.
| Role | Password | |
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | defi@gmail.com |
123456 |
| Company | smartit@gmail.com |
company123 |
| Administrator | admin@gmail.com |
Admin12345678! |
Do not use these credentials in a production environment.