Welcome to Fritze Cards 👋

Live Version: https://fritze-cards.herokuapp.com/

Fritze Cards

Fritze Cards is an Ecommerce application for purchasing baseball cards from my personal collection.

Installation

• Clone Repo

• Install MongoDB

• npm install

• create .env file in root folder like this:

MONGODB_URL=mongodb://localhost/your mongoDB db-name here

JWT_SECRET=secret

PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID=your dev paypal ID goes here

• npm start ('jayrow' root directory) - backend
• npm start ('frontend' directory) - frontend

Technology - MERN Stack

• MongoDB
• Express
• React
• Node
• Redux
• Mongoose
• Axios
• Babel
• Nodemon
• Paypal (sandbox environment)
• React Lazy Load (for images)

Potential Upcoming Changes

• Create a general landing page with about section
• Upload Card images by implementing a "choose file" button
• Implement Multer for image uploads
• Implement Amazon Web Services for uploading card images
• Adjust shipping costs based on location - to make shipping costs reasonable
• Implement "forgot password" functionality
• Implement a "Guest Checkout" option
• Add more card manufacturers

Current Items to Repair/Improve

• Review and cleanup unused imports/variable
• Research how to speed up image loading
• Research why Paypal is slow to load (sometimes have to refresh screen)
• Improve Search functionality - auto complete (trie data structure)
• Research ways to improve UI

License

MIT