https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/ An opinionated React + ASP.NET Core + SQL Server starter, built in public by Michael Mortensen. en-us Fri, 13 Nov 2026 16:00:00 -0700 https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/roles-and-permissions https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/roles-and-permissions Sat, 07 Nov 2026 21:00:00 -0700 Roles, permissions, and a Members page. Why the code checks permissions and never role names, why permissions come from the database instead of the cookie, and how a tenant always keeps an admin, even when two admins demote each other at once. https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/password-reset https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/password-reset Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:00:00 -0700 Forgot password, reset, and change password, built on step 5's sign-in. Where a reset link can leak, why the form gives everyone the same answer, and why email moved from Azure to Resend when Microsoft announced ACS's retirement. https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/signing-in https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/signing-in Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:00:00 -0700 The live demo now sits behind a real sign-in: our own user tables, Argon2id, and a plain cookie, with no Identity and no JWT. How it works, and the deploy that kept failing because I merged before the infrastructure existed. https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/the-app-shell https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/the-app-shell Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0700 The single health page is now a real app shell: a sidebar, a top bar with a tenant switcher, and light and dark themes. Built on plain CSS and the browser's own elements, with exactly three new dependencies, and a lot of what I chose not to add. https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/ship-early-ship-often https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/ship-early-ship-often Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:00:00 -0700 Step 3 was supposed to be the app shell. Instead, Dashboard Starter is live on Azure and deploys itself on every merge. Why I deployed before the first feature, how it fits together, and the three ways the first deploy failed. https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/no-magic https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/no-magic Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:00:00 -0700 Before writing step 2's code, I went back over the stack from post 1 and changed a surprising amount of it. What I changed, what I questioned and kept, and what the repo does now. https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/why-another-dashboard-starter https://mvmorten.com/projects/dashboard-starter/why-another-dashboard-starter Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0700 Why I'm building an open-source React, ASP.NET Core, and SQL Server dashboard starter in public, what version 1 covers, and how the series will work.