README.md

MERN Ecommerce Application

Currently under construction for additional features

Description

Full-stack ecommerce application built with MERN stack. This project has two features:

1. Buyers register and browse the marketplace while interacting with products across different categories.
2. Admins control and manage the marketplace items and customer acounts.

Getting Started

Dependencies

• Nodejs - The runtime environment of the application
• Reactjs - Component based UI library
• MongoDB - NoSQL database
• Expressjs - Framework to handle routes and requests
• Mongoose - MongoDB object modeling tool to model the database schema

Installation

After you cloned the repository do not start the application. To run the application fully you need to create a database and collection and provide your own database URI.

Setup

• Go to MongoDB website and create a database and a collection named 'Items' and insert the data in the server/ItemsCollection.js file as a document.
• Create a .env file in the server folder and type the following

    NODE_ENV = development
    PORT = 5000
    MONGO_URI = mongodb+srv://<your uri from mongodb website>

Running

After this you can run the project locally:

• To run the front end
  • cd client
  • npm start
• To run the back end
  • cd server
  • npm run dev TIP: Run both in split terminal so that you can see both ends running

Languages and tools

• Node
• React
• Expressjs
• Mongoose
• Material UI