ECommerce Store - Die Schreiberei

Description

Visit the deployed ecommerce shop of Die Schreiberei here: https://ecommerce-die-schreiberei.herokuapp.com/

This ecommerce project is part of a web development course. Hence, Die Schreiberei is no actual company and no purchases can be made.

A products page where all the products are listed
A page for each single product with the ability to add an amount to the cart
A shopping cart page containing a list of all products that have been added to the cart with the ability to change the amount; it also shows the total price of all products
Checkout page which shows the total and asks for shipping and payment information
A thank you page after a checkout has been completed
The header will show a shopping cart with the current number of items on all pages
Responsive header and websites

Clone the repo to your local machine with git clone <repo>
Setup the database by downloading and installing PostgreSQL
Create a user and a database
Create a new file .env
Copy the environment variables from .env-example into .env
Replace the placeholders xxxxx with your username, password and name of database
Install dotenv-cli with yarn global add dotenv-cli
Run yarn install in your command line
Run the migrations with yarn migrate up
Start the server by running yarn dev

The easiest way to deploy your Next.js app is to use Heroku.

Sign up for Heroku: signup.heroku.com
Create a new App
Choose a name and select the "Europe" Region
Click on the button in the middle called "Connect to GitHub"
Search for your repository in the search box at the bottom of the page and click on the "Connect" button Click on the button for "Enable Automatic Deploys"
Go back to the Overview tab and click on "Configure Add-On"
Search for "Postgres" and select "Heroku Postgres" from the results
Trigger a deploy by pushing your repo to GitHub