Added Hangfire with LiteDB for a task running system. At the most basic, this allows us to monitor tasks running on the system (during dev only) and run tasks on a reoccuring or ad-hoc basis.

API/Extensions/ApplicationServiceExtensions.cs

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ using API.Helpers;
 using API.Interfaces;
 using API.Services;
 using AutoMapper;
+using Hangfire;
+using Hangfire.LiteDB;
 using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
@@ -14,6 +16,7 @@ namespace API.Extensions
         public static IServiceCollection AddApplicationServices(this IServiceCollection services, IConfiguration config)
         {
             services.AddAutoMapper(typeof(AutoMapperProfiles).Assembly);
+            services.AddScoped<ITaskScheduler, TaskScheduler>();
             services.AddScoped<IUserRepository, UserRepository>();
             services.AddScoped<ITokenService, TokenService>();
             services.AddScoped<IDirectoryService, DirectoryService>();
@@ -23,6 +26,14 @@ namespace API.Extensions
                 options.UseSqlite(config.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection"));
             });
 
+            services.AddHangfire(configuration => configuration
+                .UseSimpleAssemblyNameTypeSerializer()
+                .UseRecommendedSerializerSettings()
+                .UseLiteDbStorage());
+            
+            // Add the processing server as IHostedService
+            services.AddHangfireServer();
+
             return services;
         }
     }