ECommerce Website

React & Node Tutorial - Full ECommerce in 9 Hours [2021]

Welcome to my React and Node tutorial to build a fully-functional e-commerce website exactly like amazon. Open your code editor and follow me for the next hours to build an e-commerce website using MERN stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, React and Node.JS).

Run Locally

1. Clone repo

$ git clone https://github.com/Onjacktallcuca/ecommerce.git
$ cd ecommerce

2. Setup MongoDB

Local MongoDB
- Install it from here
- Create .env file in root folder
- Set MONGODB_URL=mongodb://localhost/amazona
Atlas Cloud MongoDB
- Create database at https://cloud.mongodb.com
- Create .env file in root folder
- Set MONGODB_URL=mongodb+srv://your-db-connection

3. Run Backend

$ npm install
$ npm start

4. Run Frontend

# open new terminal
$ cd frontend
$ npm install
$ npm start

5. Seed Users and Products

Run this on chrome: http://localhost:5000/api/users/seed
It returns admin email and password
Run this on chrome: http://localhost:5000/api/products/seed
It creates 6 sample products

6. Admin Login

Run http://localhost:3000/signin
Enter admin email and password and click signin