An eCommerce Platform

An eCommerce platform built with the MERN stack & Redux.

Features

• shopping cart

• Login/Logout/Register a user

• Admin route to view all users orders and add new products

• Full CRUD functionality for writing reviews

• Paypal for checkout process and payment processing

• Toasts for displaying messages to the user

• Mongo db with Mongoose

  Usage

  • Create a MongoDB database and obtain your MongoDB URI - MongoDB Atlas
  • Create a PayPal account and obtain your Client ID - PayPal Developer

Env Variables

Create a .env file and add the following:

    NODE_ENV = development
    PORT = 5000
    MONGO_URI = your mongodb uri
    JWT_SECRET = 'any jwt_secret will do'
    PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID = your paypal client id
    PAGINATION_LIMIT = 8

Change the JWT_SECRET and PAGINATION_LIMIT to what you want

Install Dependencies (frontend and backend)

    npm install
    cd frontend
    npm install

Run Locally

    npm run dev

Seed Database

You can use the following commands to seed the database with some sample users and products as well as destroy all data

    # Import data
    npm run data:import

    # Destroy data
    npm run data:destroy