Menu Close

An ecommerce Website built with React and Mongoose

An ecommerce Website built with React and Mongoose

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.

Demo

This application is deployed on Render Please check it out 😄 here.

See admin dashboard demo

Install

Some basic Git commands are:

$ git clone https://github.com/mohamedsamara/mern-ecommerce.git
$ cd project
$ npm install

Setup

Create .env file that include: * MONGO_URI & JWT_SECRET * PORT & BASE_SERVER_URL & BASE_API_URL & BASE_CLIENT_URL * MAILCHIMP_KEY & MAILCHIMP_LIST_KEY => Mailchimp configuration * MAILGUN_KEY & MAILGUN_DOMAIN & MAILGUN_EMAIL_SENDER => Mailgun configuration * GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID & GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET & GOOGLE_CALLBACK_URL => Google Auth configuration * FACEBOOK_CLIENT_ID & FACEBOOK_CLIENT_SECRET & FACEBOOK_CALLBACK_URL => Facebook Auth configuration * AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID & AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY & AWS_REGION & AWS_BUCKET_NAME => AWS configuration

Start development

$ npm run dev

Simple build for production

$ npm run build

Run build for production

$ npm start

Languages & tools

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",
    }
View Source Code
Posted in MERN, Mongoose, React