nichoth/shopping-cart

shopping cart

A shopping cart UI widget

Uses preact

install

npm i -S @nichoth/shopping-cart

A browserified bundle is in /dist. Or you would import src/cart if you are bundling these prior to use.

example

With import

import Cart from '@nichoth/shopping-cart'
import EVENTS from '@nichoth/shopping-cart/src/EVENTS'

// args are optional
var cart = new Cart({
    storage: true // store the state in localStorage?
    key: 'cart'  // default is 'cart'
})

// `cart` is an event emitter
cart.on(EVENTS.quantity.change, ev => {
    console.log('quantity', ev.quantity)
    console.log('index', ev.index)
})

cart.on(EVENTS.cart.remove, index => {
    console.log('index of the removed item', index)
})

cart.on(EVENTS.product.change, (index, updatedProduct) => {
    console.log('product change', updatedProduct)
})

// pass in an element to mount it at
// or it will automatically mount to the given ID
// for any product, if the `quantity` is greater than the
// `quantityAvaileble`, the icon will render as an exclamation point

// can also pass in a preact element for the icon

// (el, icon, opts) {
cart.createIcon(document.getElementById('shopping-cart-icon'), null, {
    link: '/my-cart'
})
cart.createPage(document.getElementById('shopping-cart-page'), mapper)

function mapper (html, product) {  // `html` here is from 'htm' on npm
    console.log('in map', product)
    return html`
        <span>name: ${product.name || 'none'}, </span>
        <span>price: ${product.price || 'none'}<//>
    `
}

var products = cart.products()

cart.remove(1) // remove the product at index 1
cart.empty()  // remove everything in the cart

// add something
// icon and page in the UI will auto update
// index is for the item that was added
// default quantity of 1 will be added if no quantity key is present
var index = cart.add({ name: 'my product', quantity: 1, price: 10 }) {

// index of item & desired quantity
// returns itself for chaining
// will emit EvENTS.quantity.change
cart = cart.changeQuantity(0, 2) {

// will emit EVENTS.product.change (index, updatedProduct)
cart = cart.update(0, { quantityAvailable: 4 })

// -----------------------------------------------------------


// get the cart state
var state = cart.state()
var { products } = state

Without importing

<script src="/path/to/cart/dist/bundle.js"></script>
<script>
    var cart = new window.Cart({})
    cart.createIcon(document.getElementById('shopping-cart-icon'), null, {
        link: '/my-shopping-cart'
    })
    cart.createPage(document.getElementById('shopping-cart-page'))
</script>

develop

Start a local dev server

npm start

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Creating A Shopping Cart With HTML5 Web Storage

Ecommerce cart design best practices

shopping-cart's Issues

Use localstorage to save the items

Make sure stock is ok

When you load a cart, make sure with the DB that everything has stock. Show some kind of alert or something if you can't buy something that is(was) in the cart.