Simple Ecommerce website

Here is the link to the live website: Simple Ecommerce

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I wanted to learn more about eCommerce websites. This website started out as following a tutorial from a Brad Traversy tutorial. After finishing his tutorial and my background as a supply chain manager, I added on to this web site.

Features

• Full featured shopping cart
• Product reviews and ratings
• Top products carousel
• Product pagination
• Product search feature
• User profile with orders
• Admin product management
• Admin user management
• Admin Order details page
• Mark orders as delivered option
• Checkout process (shipping, payment method, etc)
• PayPal / credit card integration
• Database seeder (products & users)

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Running development

• Git clone

• cd to the file location

• npm install

• cd client

• npm install

• cd ..

• add a env file with the env variables listed below

• change the database env variables to your connections

• npm data:import will seed the database

• npm data:destroy will delete all data in the database

• npm run dev

• backend server will run on port 5000

• frontend server will run on port 3000

env variables

• NODE_ENV = development
• PORT = 5000
• MONGO_URI = your mongodb uri
• JWT_SECRET = 'abc123'
• PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID = your paypal client id