/Online-marketplace

All sorts of e-commerce web applications are abundant on the internet, and they will not go out of style anytime soon. Using MERN, we will build a comprehensive online marketplace application with basic-to-advanced e-commerce features. The following screenshot shows the completed home page of the marketplace with product listings:

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

MERN Marketplace

An online marketplace application with seller accounts, product search and suggestions, shopping cart, order management, payment processing with Stripe, and live auction with Socket.io - developed using React, Node, Express and MongoDB.

MERN Marketplace

What you need to run this code

  1. Node (13.12.0)
  2. NPM (6.14.4)
  3. MongoDB (4.2.0)
  4. Stripe account with test data

How to run this code

  1. Make sure MongoDB is running on your system
  2. Clone this repository
  3. Update config/config.js with your test values for Stripe API keys and Stripe Connect Client ID
  4. Open command line in the cloned folder,
    • To install dependencies, run npm install
    • To run the application for development, run npm run development
  5. Open localhost:3000 in the browser

The benefits of using a full JavaScript stack for web development are undeniable, especially when robust and widely adopted technologies such as React, Node, and Express and are available. Combining the power of React with industry-tested, server-side technologies, such as Node, Express, and MongoDB, creates a diverse array of possibilities when developing real-world web applications.

This book guides you through preparing the development environment for MERN stack-based web development, to creating a basic skeleton application and extending it to build four different web applications. These applications include a social media, an online marketplace, a media streaming, and a web-based game application with virtual reality features.

While learning to set up the stack and developing a diverse range of applications with this book, you will grasp the inner workings of the MERN stack, extend its capabilities for complex features, and gain actionable knowledge of how to prepare MERN-based applications to meet the growing demands of real-world web applications.