E-commerce Shop Backend

A backend system for an e-commerce website that utilized the PERN stack and Typescript

DB setup and connection

open the terminal and run the following commands to create and run the database:

• switch to the postgres user su postgres
• start psql psql postgres
• in psql run the following:
  • CREATE USER shopdb_admin WITH PASSWORD 'pass@2022';
  • CREATE DATABASE shop_backend;
  • \c shop_backend
  • GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE shop_backend TO shopdb_admin;
• to test that it is working run \dt and it should output "No relations found."
• For the test database do the following:
  • CREATE DATABASE shop_backend_test;
  • \c shop_backend_test
  • GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE shop_backend_test TO shopdb_admin;

add the following environment variables to your .env file and replace the placeholders with your values :

POSTGRES_HOST = 127.0.0.1
POSTGRES_PORT = 5432
POSTGRES_DB = shop_backend
POSTGRES_TEST_DB = shop_backend_test
POSTGRES_USER = shopdb_admin
POSTGRES_PASSWORD = pass@2022

ENV = dev
JWT_SECRET = <your_jwt_secret_string>
BCRYPT_PEPPER = <your_bcrypt_secret_string>
SALT_ROUNDS = <the_number_of_salt_rounds>

Set up

• npm install to install all dependencies

• npm run start-db to set up the database and get access via http://127.0.0.1:5432

• npm run build to build the app

Start the app

• npm run start to start the app and get access via http://127.0.0.1:3000

Test the app

• Set the ENV variable in the .env file to test

• npm run test to run all tests

Tech

The project uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

• TypeScript - a strongly typed programming language that builds on JavaScript
• node.js - evented I/O for the backend
• Express - fast node.js network app framework
• PostgreSQL - a powerful and open-source RDBMS
• Jasmine - behavior-driven development framework for testing JavaScript code

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

Contact

Tarek Marzouk - LinkedIn - [email protected]

Project Link: https://github.com/tareksherif23/Shop-Backend