alveee/auction-app

Auction app

This project is about a web auction application for an antique items seller. The application will allow users to bid on antique items displayed in the site.

This application is divided into 2 sections. Frontend part is built with Reactjs and server side is build with express.js. For databases, we have used mongodb.

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Setup

Backend Installation

After cloning the project

• run cd server command to change directory
• run npm install command to download all the dependencies
• create a new file named .env in the root directory of server folder
• copy the content from the .env.example and paste it into .env file
• run node index.js

Database setup

We have used mongodb cloud service named ATLAS to manage our database. Please follow this steps to create your cluster and database: https://docs.atlas.mongodb.com/getting-started/

After creating cluster and database, you'll get a connection string. Copy this string and set this value to ATLAS_URI key in .env file into server folder.

Import the products.json and user.json from the dataset folder to your database.

Frontend Installation

After cloning the project

• run cd client command to change directory
• run npm install command to download all the dependencies
• run npm run start command to start the frontend application. This will open a new window in web browser