Proton Store eCommerce Platform

This project contains an eCommerce platform built with the MERN stack & Redux. It has a full-featured shopping cart built using the PayPal API & credit/debit payments.

• Features
• Usage
  • Env Variables
  • Install Dependencies (frontend & backend)
  • Run
• Build & Deploy
  • Seed Database

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)

Usage

• Create a MongoDB database and obtain your MongoDB URI - MongoDB Atlas
• Create a PayPal account and obtain your Client ID - PayPal Developer

Env Variables

Rename the .env.example file to .env and add the following

PORT=8000
NODE_ENV=development
MONGO_URI=your_value_goes_here
JWT_SECRET=your_value_goes_here
PAGINATION_LIMIT=8

PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID=your_value_goes_here
PAYPAL_APP_SECRET=your_value_goes_here
PAYPAL_API_URL=https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com

You can change the PAGINATION_LIMIT to what you prefer

Install Dependencies (frontend & backend)

Ensure that nvm, npm and Nodemon are installed globally

Install the correct version of Node running this command in the project root folder

nvm install

npm install
cd client
npm install

Run

# Run frontend (:3000) & backend (:8000)
npm run dev

# Run backend only
npm run server

Build & Deploy

# Create frontend prod build
cd client
npm run build

Seed Database

You can use the following commands to seed the database with some sample users and products as well as destroy all the data

# Import data
npm run data:import

# Destroy data
npm run data:destroy

Sample User Logins

admin@email.com (Admin)
123456

john@email.com (Customer)
123456

jane@email.com (Customer)
123456

Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)