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Layered Solution: Overview
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Some of the features mentioned in this document may not be available in the free version. We're using the * symbol to indicate that a feature is available in the Team and Higher licenses.
In this document, you will learn what the Layered solution template offers to you.
Pre-Installed Libraries & Services
The following libraries and services come pre-installed and configured for both development and production environments. After creating your solution, you can modify or remove most of them as needed.
- Autofac for Dependency Injection.
- Serilog with File and Console logging providers.
- Redis for distributed caching. Redis is used for distributed caching if you select the Public Website * or Tiered * option.
- Swagger for exploring and testing HTTP APIs.
- OpenIddict as the built-in authentication server.
Pre-Configured Features
The following features are built and pre-configured for you in the solution.
- Authentication is fully configured based on best practices.
- Permission (authorization), setting, feature and the localization management systems are pre-configured and ready to use.
- Background job system.
- BLOB storge system is installed with the database provider.
- On-the-fly database migration system (services automatically migrated their database schema when you deploy a new version). *
- Helm charts are included to deploy the solution to Kubernetes. *
- Swagger authentication is configured to test the authorized HTTP APIs.
Fundamental Modules
The following modules are pre-installed and configured for the solution:
- Account to authenticate users (login, register, two factor auth *, etc)
- Identity to manage roles and users
- OpenIddict (the core part) to implement the OAuth authentication flows
In addition these, Feature Management, Permission Management and Setting Management modules are pre-installed as they are the fundamental feature modules of the ABP.
Optional Modules
The following modules are optionally included in the solution, so you can select the ones you need:
- Audit Logging
- Chat *
- File Management *
- GDPR *
- Language Management *
- OpenIddict (Management UI) *
- Tenant Management (Multi-Tenancy) or SaaS *
- Text Template Management *
UI Theme
The LeptonX Lite or LeptonX theme * is pre-configured for the solution. You can select one of the color palettes (System, Light or Dark) as default, while the end-user dynamically change it on the fly.
Other Options
Layered startup template asks for some preferences while creating your solution.
Database Providers
There are two database provider options are provided on a new solution creation:
- Entity Framework Core with SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL DBMS options. You can switch to anther DBMS manually after creating your solution.
- MongoDB
UI Frameworks
The solution comes with a main web application with the following UI Framework options:
- None (doesn't include a web application to the solution)
- Angular
- MVC / Razor Pages UI
- Blazor WebAssembly
- Blazor Server
- Blazor WebApp
- MAUI with Blazor (Hybrid) *
The Mobile Application
If you prefer, the solution includes a mobile application. The mobile application is fully integrated to the system, implements authentication (login) and other ABP features, and includes a few screens that you can use and take as example. The following options are available:
- None (doesn't include a mobile application to the solution)
- MAUI *
- React Native *
Multi-Tenancy & SaaS Module *
The SaaS module is included as an option. When you select it, the multi-tenancy system is automatically configured. Otherwise, the system will not include any multi-tenancy overhead.