ayo-1/mern-ecommerce

🎈 Fullstack MERN Ecommerce Application

MERN Ecommerce

• features:
  • Node provides the backend environment for this application
  • Express middleware is used to handle requests, routes
  • Mongoose schemas to model the application data
  • React for displaying UI components
  • Redux to manage application's state
  • Redux Thunk middleware to handle asynchronous redux actions

Demo

This application is deployed on Heroku. Please check it out 😄 here.

Install

Some basic Git commands are:

$ git clone https://github.com/mohamedsamara/mern-ecommerce.git
$ cd project
$ npm install

Setup

> .env file must be added to run the application
> .env file must include: 
  * PORT & MONGO_URI
  * SECRET_OR_KEY => secret key for JWT
  * MAILCHIMP_KEY & MAILCHIMP_LIST_KEY => Mailchimp configuration
  * MAILGUN_KEY & MAILGUN_DOMAIN & MAILGUN_EMAIL_SENDER => Mailgun configuration

Heroku Deployment

> Procfile should be added with the following command **web: npm run start:production**
> Make sure all modules are listed under dependencies and no devDependencies

Run the application for development

$ npm start

Run the application for production

$ npm run start:production

Languages & tools

• Node

• Express

• Mongoose

• Webpack

• React