Proshop Ecommerce - MERN

This is an eCommerce shop developed using MERN stack along with Redux Toolkit.

Features

• Full featured shopping cart
• Product reviews and ratings
• Top products carousel
• Product pagination
• Product search feature
• Product search by categories and brands
• Filter product
• User profile with orders
• Admin product management
• Admin user management
• Admin Order details page
• Mark orders as delivered option
• Checkout process (shipping, payment method, etc)
• PayPal / credit card integration
• Database seeder (products & users)

Concepts used

• Cloudinary for image storing
• React with functional components & hooks
• React router
• React-Bootstrap UI library
• How to structure components
• Component level state & props
• Managing global state with Redux (Actions & Reducers)
• Using Redux state in components (useDispatch & useSelector)
• useLocation & useNavigation
• Creating an extensive back end with Express
• Working with a MongoDB database and the Mongoose ODM
• JWT authentication (JSON web tokens) with HTTP-Only cookie
• Creating custom authentication middleware
• Custom error handler
• Integrating the PayPal API
• Environment variables
• And lot more..

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

Rename the .env.example file to .env and add the following

NODE_ENV = devleopment
PORT = 5000
MONGO_URI = ADD_YOUR_MONGO_URI
JWT_SECRET = ADD_YOUR_JWT_SECRET
PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID = ADD_YOUR_PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID
PAGINATION_LIMIT = ADD_YOUR_PAGINATION_LIMIT
PAYPAL_APP_SECRET= ADD_YOUR_PAYPAL_APP_SECRET
PAYPAL_API_URL= https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com // when sandbox to live  https://api-m.paypal.com
CLOUDINARY_NAME = ADD_YOUR_CLOUDINARY_CLOUDNAME
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY = ADD_YOUR_CLOUDINARY_API_KEY
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET = ADD_YOUR_CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET 

Change the JWT_SECRET and PAGINATION_LIMIT to what you want

Install Dependencies (frontend & backend)

npm install
cd frontend
npm install

Run

# Run frontend (:3000) & backend (:5000)
npm run dev

# Run backend only
npm run server

Build & Deploy

# Create frontend prod build
cd frontend
npm run build

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

Sample User Logins

admin@gmail.com (Admin)
123456

john@gmail.com (Customer)
123456

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