MERN Ecommerce

Description

An ecommerce store built with MERN stack, and utilizes third party API's. This ecommerce store enable three main different flows or implementations:

1. Buyers browse the store categories, products and brands
2. Sellers or Merchants manage their own brand component
3. Admins manage and control the entire store components

Features:

• Node provides the backend environment for this application
• Express middleware is used to handle requests, routes
• Mongoose schemas to model the application data
• React for displaying UI components
• Redux to manage application's state
• Redux Thunk middleware to handle asynchronous redux actions

Database Seed

• The seed command will create an admin user in the database
• The email and password are passed with the command as arguments
• Like below command, replace brackets with email and password.
• For more information, see code here

npm run seed:db [email-***@****.com] [password-******] // This is just an example.

Install

npm install in the project root will install dependencies in both client and server. See package.json

ENV

Create .env file for both client and server. See examples:

Frontend ENV

Backend ENV

Start development

npm run dev

Languages & tools

• Node

• Express

• Mongoose

• React

• Webpack

Code Formatter

• Add a .vscode directory
• Create a file settings.json inside .vscode
• Install Prettier - Code formatter in VSCode
• Add the following snippet:

    {
      "editor.formatOnSave": true,
      "prettier.singleQuote": true,
      "prettier.arrowParens": "avoid",
      "prettier.jsxSingleQuote": true,
      "prettier.trailingComma": "none",
      "javascript.preferences.quoteStyle": "single",
    }

npm run seed:db muhammadkhancpp@gmail.com businesswebsite