Ecommerce MERN Web Application

This project is based on Ryan Dhungel's Udemy course. The aim of this project is to create a fully functional ecommerce web application using the MERN stack.

Features

• Creating, reading, updating, and deleting products and categories.
• Uploading images.
• Using custom product card components to display products.
• Advanced searching and filtering of products.
• Products based on categories.
• Sorting products by created date and sold quantity.
• Product in-stock/out-of-stock, sold quantity update etc.
• View product with relative products (suggestive selling).
• User cart and orders history.
• Admin and user dashboards.
• Order management by admin.
• Email notification to users on order status change.
• Protected routes for logged-in and admin users.
• Braintree Payment System (Credit Card and PayPal).
• Role-based access.

Technologies

• React
• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB

Getting Started

1. Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/ymw0331/ecommerce-mern-webapp.git

2. Install dependencies for both the client and server:

# Install client dependencies
cd client && npm install

# Install server dependencies
cd ../ && npm install

3. Set up environment variables by creating a .env file in the root of the project with the following keys:

MONGO_URI=<your_mongo_uri>
JWT_SECRET=<your_jwt_secret>
BRAINTREE_MERCHANT_ID=<your_braintree_merchant_id>
BRAINTREE_PUBLIC_KEY=<your_braintree_public_key>
BRAINTREE_PRIVATE_KEY=<your_braintree_private_key>
EMAIL_FROM=<your_email_address>

4. Start the server: (cd ../)

npm run start

5. Start the client: (cd client)

npm run start 

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or want to contribute to the project, feel free to open a pull request or an issue.

Credits

Credit goes to Ryan Dhungel for his comprehensive course on Udemy, which served as the foundation for this project.