This is a site built for a mock brewery and includes a home, products and contact pages as well as a small e-commerce store. The client-side of the app is built using vanilla JS and CSS while the server-side code uses Node.js to build a simple express server and connect to mongoose which stores my products.
The aim of this project was to build a full, responsive and fluid site for a ficticious brewing company that included a basic e-commerce store as the main feature and so I could include the project in my portfolio. Having only just began to play around with node.js I wanted to write a simple server using express and connect it to a database that could store my own custom products instead of using a headless CMS so that I could learn some node basics. I also wanted to practice with another templating language after trying Handlebars so for this project I went with ejs. Finally, on the frontend the use of a large framework was not required for this task as the only complex state management required is in the store and I wanted to improve my vanilla javascript skills through building the store functionality.
- javaScript
- css
- node.js 14.x
- express 4.17.1
- mongoose 5.10.4
- ejs 3.1.3
- webpack 5.11.1
- jest 26.6.0
For this project you will need to install node.js and mongodb on your machine. First clone the repo to your machine and install the project dependencies using
npm install
Then you will need to setup cloud storage for the store products. For this project I went with mongodb cloud.
First setup your cluster and then when ready connect it to the app by creating the .env file using the .env.example provided.
In order to populate the cluster with products run the command
npm run seeder
To build and run the app use
npm run build-prod && npm run start-prod
and open the project at http://localhost:5000.
- Kieran Roberts