Deploying to Hugging Face

.dockerignore

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+**/.dockerignore
+**/.git
+**/.gitignore
+**/.vs
+**/bin
+**/obj
+**/*.user
+**/node_modules
+**/wwwroot

Backend/Program.cs

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+using System.IO;
 using System.Text;
 using DbConnect.Data;
 using DbConnect.Entities;
@@ -21,10 +22,21 @@ AppContext.SetSwitch("Npgsql.EnableLegacyTimestampBehavior", true);
 var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
 
 // Firebase Admin SDK Initialization
-FirebaseApp.Create(new AppOptions()
+var firebaseConfig = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("FIREBASE_CONFIG");
+if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(firebaseConfig))
 {
-    Credential = GoogleCredential.FromFile("LibraryFirebase.json")
-});
+    FirebaseApp.Create(new AppOptions()
+    {
+        Credential = GoogleCredential.FromJson(firebaseConfig)
+    });
+}
+else if (File.Exists("LibraryFirebase.json"))
+{
+    FirebaseApp.Create(new AppOptions()
+    {
+        Credential = GoogleCredential.FromFile("LibraryFirebase.json")
+    });
+}
 
 builder.Services.AddCors(options =>
 {

Dockerfile

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+# Build stage
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:8.0 AS build
+WORKDIR /src
+
+# Copy project files for restoring dependencies
+COPY ["Backend/Backend.csproj", "Backend/"]
+COPY ["DbConnect/DbConnect.csproj", "DbConnect/"]
+COPY ["LibraryManagement.Shared/LibraryManagement.Shared.csproj", "LibraryManagement.Shared/"]
+
+# Restore dependencies
+RUN dotnet restore "Backend/Backend.csproj"
+
+# Copy everything else and build
+COPY . .
+WORKDIR "/src/Backend"
+RUN dotnet publish "Backend.csproj" -c Release -o /app/publish /p:UseAppHost=false
+
+# Final stage
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:8.0 AS final
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY --from=build /app/publish .
+
+# --- HUGGING FACE SPECIFIC CONFIG ---
+# Hugging Face requires port 7860
+EXPOSE 7860
+ENV ASPNETCORE_URLS=http://+:7860
+# ------------------------------------
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "Backend.dll"]