Ecommerce Photo Store - 🎨 Image Barter Bazaar 📸

Overview

A brief introduction of the project, main features, setup instructions, technologies used and resource credits.

Aim
Features
Technologies Used
Project Setup
Additional Information
Credits

Aim

The aim of the project is to build a functional E-commerce platform with a built-in payment gateway. For tech stack check Technologies Used. The platform being a skills demonstration for Full-Stack Development will have browsing functionality and a barter-exchange checkout.

Features

Authorize and authenticate Users(Customers) based on their credentials
Users/Customers can:
- Register and create their own profiles
- Browse Products and add items to the Cart
- Search Products through filters - Type, Theme & Author
- Edit their Cart - increase/decrease product quantity, remove product
- Upload photographs and/or art to the Product Inventory as Payment

Technologies Used

Frontend
- Figma (UI design)
- HTML
- CSS
Backend
- Django (Python)
Database
- SQLite

Project setup

Setup Local development environment

In your bash terminal, clone the git repository to a new repository, repo-name
```
    $ git clone https://github.com/prak112/Image-Barter-Bazaar.git
```
After cloning is successful, navigate to project directory,
```
    $ cd Image-Barter-Bazaar
```

Install Python

Visit Official Python website and download Python version == 3.11.2 or 3.11.x

Verify installed version in the terminal

For Windows:

    $ path/to/dir> python --version 
    Python 3.11.2

For Linux/macOS:

    $ path/to/dir> python --V 
    Python 3.11.2

Setup Python virtual environment

Open a terminal or command prompt and navigate to the directory where you want to create your Django project.
Create a new virtual environment
- For Windows:
```
    $ path/to/dir> python -m venv project_env
```
- For Linux/macOS:
```
    $ path/to/dir> python3 -m venv project_env
```
- where project_env will be the new directory with all virtual environment files

Activate virtual environment using the command based on your operating system

For Windows:

    $ path/to/dir> project_env\Scripts\activate.bat

For macOS/Linux:

    $ path/to/dir> source project_env/bin/activate

Install dependencies

Inside the activated virtual environment, install the project dependencies from requirements.txt
```
    $ (project_env) path/to/dir> pip install -r requirements.txt
```
Verify if the installed libraries have the required versions from requirements.txt
```
    $ (project_env) path/to/dir> pip list
```

Execute Project

Navigate to the project directory (ecommstore) where the Django project is located
```
    $ (project_env) path/to/dir> cd ecommstore
```

Implement Database schema

Migrate the database design implemented using Django Models in models.py in the apps - photostore & users

After creating the neccessary migration files in the migrations directory :

    $ (project_env) path/to/dir/ecommstore> python manage.py makemigrations

The above command has no effect if models.py is unchanged.
In that case, we could just migrate existing Django Models at the beginning of the project :
```
    $ (project_env) path/to/dir/ecommstore> python manage.py migrate
```

Run server

After implementing the database schema, run the following command to start the Django development server:
```
    $ (project_env) path/to/dir/ecommstore> python manage.py runserver
```

Additional Information

To know more about project plan, implementation, workflows and further enhancements, see Wiki

Credits

Planning assistance
- ChatGPT (GPT 3.5)
Development assistance
- GitHub CoPilot
Photos
- Pexels
Art
- Bing Copilot Designer

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