Blazor Server application for organizing learning resources, turning them into content ideas, and sharing curated knowledge with other learners.

Overview • Features • Getting started • Configuration • Deployment • Project structure

LearnStack helps learners and creators manage the full path from discovery to publishing:

• Save articles, videos, podcasts, courses, and documentation in one place.
• Track progress, priorities, notes, and archived items.
• Turn saved material into structured content ideas.
• Share public collections and selected resources with other users.
• Use the app in multiple languages with light and dark themes.

The application is built with ASP.NET Core, Blazor Server, Entity Framework Core, SQL Server, MudBlazor, and ASP.NET Identity.

• Capture resources by URL with automatic metadata enrichment.
• Organize items by type, status, priority, tags, and notes.
• Switch between list and table views, search, filter, archive, and export your library.
• Track progress across to-learn, in-progress, completed, and archived states.

• Create content ideas from your learning backlog.
• Link ideas back to the source resources that inspired them.
• Track ideas from draft to published.

• Create public shared collections with unique share links.
• Manage friendships with invitation links.
• Share selected public resources with connected friends.

• Localized UI in English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian.
• Light and dark theme support.
• Installable as a Progressive Web App (home-screen icons only; no offline mode).
• ASP.NET Identity authentication with passkey support.
• Terms of Service acceptance flow for signed-in users.

• SQL Server persistence through Entity Framework Core.
• Automatic database migration on application startup.
• Azure App Service deployment workflow with semantic version tagging and GitHub releases.

• .NET 10 / ASP.NET Core / Blazor Server
• Entity Framework Core 10 with SQL Server
• ASP.NET Core Identity
• MudBlazor
• HtmlAgilityPack for metadata scraping
• GitHub Actions for CI/CD and release automation

• .NET 10 SDK
• SQL Server or SQL Server LocalDB
• Git

git clone https://github.com/kasuken/LearnStack.git
cd LearnStack
dotnet restore LearnStack.sln
dotnet run --project LearnStack/LearnStack.csproj

Open the HTTPS URL printed in the console and register a new account.

dotnet build LearnStack.sln

The main application settings live in LearnStack/appsettings.json and LearnStack/appsettings.Development.json.

• ConnectionStrings:DefaultConnection: SQL Server connection string used by Entity Framework Core and ASP.NET Identity.

Example environment variable override:

$env:ConnectionStrings__DefaultConnection="Server=tcp:your-server.database.windows.net,1433;Initial Catalog=LearnStackDb;Persist Security Info=False;User ID=your-user;Password=your-password;MultipleActiveResultSets=False;Encrypt=True;TrustServerCertificate=False;Connection Timeout=30;"

• Database access is created through IDbContextFactory<ApplicationDbContext>.
• Supported UI cultures are en, de, es, fr, and it.
• Request localization uses cookie selection first, then the Accept-Language header.
• Open Graph metadata fetching uses a dedicated HTTP client and includes YouTube oEmbed support.

LearnStack includes a GitHub Actions workflow that deploys the app to Azure App Service whenever changes are pushed to main.

The workflow:

• builds and publishes the Blazor application,
• deploys it to Azure App Service,
• calculates the next semantic version,
• creates a Git tag,
• publishes a GitHub release.

Useful docs:

• Azure deployment guide
• Release and versioning guide

.
|- LearnStack.sln
|- LearnStack/
|  |- Components/
|  |  |- Marketing/       # Public landing pages
|  |  |- Pages/           # Authenticated application pages
|  |  |- Shared/          # Reusable forms, cards, dialogs, selectors
|  |- Controllers/        # MVC endpoints such as culture switching
|  |- Data/               # DbContext, identity user, models, migrations
|  |- Resources/          # Localization resource files
|  |- Services/           # Application services and metadata fetching
|  |- wwwroot/            # Static assets, PWA manifest/icons, styles, scripts, logos, ToS page
|- .github/
|  |- workflows/          # Azure deployment and release automation
|  |- DEPLOYMENT.md
|  |- RELEASES.md

• Personal learning resource library
• Content idea planning pipeline
• Shared collections by link
• Friend invitations and public resource sharing
• Localization and theme support
• Installable PWA (icons and Add to Home Screen)
• Azure deployment automation

If you want to extend the project, the most natural next areas are richer collaboration, analytics, and smarter idea generation from saved resources.