ProShop eCommerce Platform

eCommerce platform built with the MERN stack & Redux. Live URL: https://proshop-9999.herokuapp.com/

User's Functionalities:

• Register/Login
• Add products to their own cart
• Check them out with shipping address and payment info
• Place the order, pay for the order using PayPal/credit card
• Update their own profile and see their orders' details only
• Review/Rate a product once only in order to avoid BOT/spam reviews

Admin's Functionalities:

• Login
• Perform all that a user can perform
• Create/Update/Delete a product
• Update/Delete a user
• Mark a user to be an admin user
• See all users' orders' details
• Mark the delivered orders as delivered

Additional Functionalities:

• Top Products Carousel
• Product Pagination
• Product Search
• Database Seeder (Products & Users)
• Prevent NoSQL injections
• Add extra headers for security
• Prevent cross site scripting - XSS
• Add a rate limit for requests of 100 requests per 10 minutes
• Protect against http param polution
• Use cors to make API public (for now)
• Server Deployment Support (Heroku)

Env Variables

To run the app locally, create a .env file in then root and add the following

NODE_ENV = development
PORT = 5000
MONGO_URI = <your_mongodb_uri>
JWT_SECRET = 'abc123'
PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID = <your_paypal_client_id>

Install Dependencies (frontend & backend)

npm install
cd frontend
npm install

Run

# Run frontend (:3000) & backend (:5000)
npm run dev

# Run backend only
npm run server

Build & Deploy

# Create frontend prod build
cd frontend
npm run build

Heroku postbuild script is attached also, no need to build manually for deployment to Heroku

Seed Database

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

# Import data
npm run data:import

# Destroy data
npm run data:destroy