/nodejs-ecommerce-store

An ecommerce store built in NodeJS

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Nodejs Ecommerce Store

An amazon clone ecommerce store built in NodeJS utilizing Express, Stripe Payment, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Faker API just to mention a few. Developed with the latest cutting edge industry standard technologies, eTswana stores allows a shopper to browse through the online store and buy products using a credit card. eTswana stores supports social sign up and sign in using Facebook.

Live Demo

View the live demo as hosted on Heroku at https://nameless-eyrie-75082.herokuapp.com/ (application may take few seconds to open)

Requirements

1. Internet connection
2. NodeJS (https://nodejs.org/)
3. Sublime Text Editor (optional: I use WebStorm)
4. MongoDB (you can use www.mlab.com)
5. Elastic Search (https://www.elastic.co/):
    Download version 1.7.5 others are not compatable
6. Stripe account

Instructions

Open the project in Sublime Text, and navigate to config folder. Open the config.js in the editor:

Add mongodb URL:

 database: '<mongo_db_url>' e.g. mongodb://localhost/test

Provide a secret key:

secretKey: "<add_secret_key>" - e.g. LKSJ&%$#XFE

Using Facebook developer site, create a Facebook app and retrieve the following:

clientID: process.env.FACEBOOK_ID || '<facebook_id>'

clientSecret: process.env.FACEBOOK_SECRET || '<facebook_secret_key>'

Create an account with Stripe Payment (https://stripe.com/)

Open routes/main.js to add the 'sk_test_SAF...' 
number retrieved from Stripe.com

Running the application

Now that we are set. Open project in terminal, and:

yarn install (this will install all dependencies)

Once all dependencies are installed

yarn start 

aggg!! Project does not run

* Make sure Elasticsearch is running (version 1.7.5).
* If using MongoDB locally, make sure it is running as well.

Testing

Add testing data to the application by loading API data from Faker API. To do this, open http://localhost:3000/api/<name-of-category-added>. Do this for all categories. I will automate this functionality with Cypress UI automation tool.

started on automating this

To run automated UI tests, run yarn test

The tests are written using the Cypress framework (https://www.cypress.io)

Docker & Kubernetes

To create a Docker container for the application, docker build -t etswana:1.0.0 .. Create the Docker image with docker run etswana:1.0.0

WIP: add more instructions on setting up Docker and Kubernetes including monitoring.

Whats Next

1. REFACTOR! Clean code comments
2. REFACTOR! Improved code readability
3. More functionality to the ecommerce 
4. Write a detailed tutorial - probably use a package to generate one
 from the code comments

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Mr Modise

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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SOFTWARE.