Vendly - AI powered e-commerce platform

Vendly is an immersive, first ever AI powered e-commerce platform. Vendly focuses on utilizing AI with its edge breaking capabilities to simplify e-commerce. Vendly acts as a gaurd between your store and AI so everything remains intact. (Of course, there is room for NEEEEERDS tooo, a special one indeed.)

Pre-requisities

• You need have docker desktop installed in your device with WSL ubuntu/linux integration. Visit docker installation guide for setup.
• No container running or existing that conflicts with the name of service containers. Check names here
• NodeJS configured and running. Download it here
• PNPM installed and configured. If not, install from here
• Bun.js kicking your bun. Here's how: Kick-start bun

About

We have AI automation everywhere, autonomous agents coding applications and doing homework to job-work. Costing $$ more than ever. Most of the available e-commerce platforms are still old, cluttered and chaotic. Too many plugins and integration that will over-whelm any non-tech guy. They too cost $$.

Vendly saves the efforts, solves 90% of the store setup in just 10% of the time. Vendly provides an interface for AI Chat, talk with it, spout random words and let the AI hallucinate on your non-sense.

You can setup your store with-in minutes. Vendly provides numerous templates for your project, and custom builts for your needs. A dedicated CRM, Inventory Management System, Teams and Real-time Chat with detailed Analytics for NERDS.

Features

Yet to decide. jk.. I'm not writing them

Tech Stack

Vendly is built on modern-stack for cutting edge security and scalability. The primary stack consists of

Name	Description
Next.js	Frontend: built with React.js for server actions and cache
TypeScript	For type-safing and schema strict data and predictability
Tailwind CSS	CSS styling within HTML
Shad/cn UI	For pre-built UI components
Bun.js	JavaScript run-time for backend services, uses TypeScript
ElysiaJS	For backend servers
Redis	For Server-side cache
JWT	Authentication and verification across multiple services
Prisma	ORM for accessing PostgreSQL databases
Docker	Docker containerization for each backend service.
K8s	For container orchestration and scalability.

Infrastructure

Vendly is a multi-tenant platform; focusing on privacy, data integrity and providing seemless interaction with store and AI. Henceforth, it is based on micro-services architecture. It comprises of separate individual and dependent services and databases. More details on infra are described below:

• Frontend: Utilizes Next.js with TypeScript + React.js. View FRONTEND.md for greater insights.
• API Gateway: Uses ElysiaJS with middleware for authorization and re-routing requests to individual services. All requests hit the exposed gateway url. They are authorized by JWT and re-routed to addressed services. View API_GATEWAY.md for more insights.
• Backend: Backend uses Bun.js with TypeScript. View BACKEND.md for greater insights.

Get Started

Get started with this project. Contributions following contribution rules are allowed under MIT License.

Before starting, star the repository.

Clone Repo

Execute the following statement in terminal where you want the repository to be cloned.

git clone https://github.com/AteebHussain2/vendly.pk.git

Setup Environment Variables & Keys

Copy .env.example in frontend to .env. Replace place-holder values with actual keys. You can get more details here

cd frontend && copy ./.env.example .env

In a new terminal, Copy .env.example in each of the backend service to .env. Replace place-holder values with actual keys. You can get more details here

Execute following instructions line by line:

cd backend
cd api-gateway && copy ./.env.example .env
cd ../user-service && copy ./.env.example .env

Now, create a public and private keys to sign and verify JWT as described in the following table.

Key	Destination
private.pem	user-service
public.pem	api-gateway

Execute the following commands in terminal.

echo I DON'T KNOW THE COMMANDS FIGURE IT OUT

Install Dependencies

Run the following commands in terminal for starting the application.

Frontend Server

cd frontend && pnpm run dev

Backend Server

cd backend && docker compose up --build -d

License

This project is created under MIT license and allows fair usage.