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:

Buyers browse the store categories, products and brands
Sellers or Merchants manage their own brand component
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

What's Next

Add a payment method solution to enable checkout and collecting payments
Associate each Merchant to a payment account
Enable Admin to edit products & category products
Enable Merchants to add products to a specific category

Demo

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

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

Heroku Deployment

> Create a Procfile in the root directory of your application with the following command **web: npm run start:production**

Simple build for production

$ npm run production

Run the application for development

$ npm start

Run the application for production

$ npm run start:production

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