Pro-geek E-commerce - API Aplication

Pro-geek is a action-figures ecommerce aplication developed as our final project at Ironhack's full stack course. This repository keeps the RESTful API aplication, which is resposible for the back-end (data persistence). Each successful request will generate a response with a JSON all information requested, so it can be used in the front-end.

Acknowledgments

It was 3 weeks with a lot of work and dedication after almost 2 months bootcamping. Everybody at Ironhack's Sao Paulo has a huge participation on this achievement and we are very gratefull for all the support and for believe in our potential. :-)

API carachteristics

Stack used: Node, Express, Mongoose, Morgan, Cors, BodyParser, Passport, Bcrypt, Multer, Cloudinary-Multer
Requests inplemented: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH & DELETE
Deployed at: Heroku
Link to API: [https://pro-geek-ecommerce-api.herokuapp.com/]
Endpoints: "/users", "/categories", "/products", "/orders", "/evaluations"
Link to Front-End aplication: [https://pro-geek-surge.sh]
Link to Front-End repository: [https://github.com/henriquegmendes/pro-geek-ecommerce-app-front-end-react]

Additional implementations and improvements

Althouth the API is fully functional, improvements can be made to validate the data being sent from the front-end in order to ensure a consistent information being stored in the database.

Contributing

Please feel free to fork/clone this repo to look deeper into the logics of this API and contribute with some of the above improvements if you like :-) By forking this repo, use '$ npm install' in your terminal to add all dependencies needed. You will also need to create a ".env" file in your root folder and add some keys:

PORT=YOUR_LOCALHOST_ACCESS_PORT
MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost/YOUR_COLLECTION_NAME_IN_MONGODB
cloudKey=YOUR_CLOUDINARY_KEY
cloudName=YOUR_CLOUDINARY_NAME
cloudSecret=YOUR_CLOUDINARY_SECRET

You will also need to set up CORS middleware to ensure that the requests sent from the front-end will be accepted. Just go to "index.js" file and set up the origin link at line #39 (example below).

app.use(cors({ credentials: true, origin: ['http://localhost:3000'] }));

Authors & Version Control