Modernized inventory tracking stack built with a minimal .NET API, a shared core library, and a Svelte single-page app.

As seen on Budget Bytes: Build an Inventory Manager for Free!

• InventoryManagementAPI/ – Minimal API exposing receipt analysis and inventory endpoints.
• InventoryTrackerApp.Core/ – Shared models, data access, text/image analysis helpers.
• inventory-frontend/ – Vite-powered Svelte UI that talks to the API.

Svelte UI ──▶ InventoryManagementAPI ──▶ SQL
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					 └──▶ InventoryTrackerApp.Core

• .NET 9+ SDK
• Node.js 18+ and npm
• Azure Subscription with:
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Foundry Resource

1. Navigate to the repository root.

2. Restore dependencies and compile:

   dotnet restore
   dotnet build

3. Configure environment variables used by the API/Core:

   • AZURE_SQL_CONN – SQL connection string.
   • AI_FOUNDRY_ENDPOINT – Microsoft Foundry endpoint URL (ends with /).
   • API_KEY – API key for the Foundry AI resource.

   Alternatively, configure the AzureOpenAI section in appsettings.json:

   {
     "AzureOpenAI": {
       "Endpoint": "your-azure-openai-endpoint",
       "Deployment": "your-deployment-name",
       "ApiKey": "your-api-key",
       "Temperature": 0.1,
       "MaxOutputTokens": 256,
       "CatalogSampleSize": 50,
       "MinimumConfidence": 0.6
     }
   }

4. Run the API:

   dotnet run --project InventoryManagementAPI/InventoryManagementAPI.csproj

   The API listens on http://localhost:5000 by default (HTTPS on https://localhost:7269).

1. Install dependencies:

   cd inventory-frontend
   npm install

2. Start the dev server (proxies /api to http://localhost:5000):

   npm run dev

3. If the backend runs on a different URL, set VITE_API_PROXY before starting the dev server or set VITE_API_BASE_URL for production builds.
4. Build for production:

   npm run build

• Upload a photo/receipt for automatic item extraction.
• View inventory list with timestamps, categories, expiration dates.
• Trigger manual refreshes without reloading the page.

• Use dotnet watch --project InventoryManagementAPI for hot reload while developing the API.
• The Vite dev server proxies /api/* calls to the backend, so no CORS changes are needed in development.
• To serve the built Svelte assets from ASP.NET later, point a static file middleware to inventory-frontend/dist after running npm run build.