Metacart

Metacart is an E-commerce website with admin panel designed and implemented for single seller using Node.js and MySQL and AWS S3.

Demo on Heroku - https://metacart.herokuapp.com

Features

• View catalogue of products, filter by category and price range, sort by popularity and price and search for specific product by title
• Secure login and registration system with features like Google OAuth sign-in, password reset and account activation
• Content management system for admin to maintain the content, order of webpages and adding dynamic content on the website with rich-text editor
• Adding new products, editing existing products, deleting existing products, auto generating thumbnail images for products and updating order status along with tracking ID
• Adding a new category, editing existing category and deleting existing category
• Users upon purchasing a product will have an option to rate the product and also write a review about the experience
• Users can maintain multiple delivery addresses for easy checkout
• Users can use the cart system where products can be added, removed, increment, decrement, clear entire cart along with providing a detailed view of order subtotal and total pricing
• The cart items are stored in database when the user is logged in else the items are temporarily stored in the session cookie and merged to database when user logs in.
• The products are paginated for quick load time and the user can navigate between the pages
• Paytm payment gateway integration for secure and reliable payments via multiple methods like credit card, debit card, Paytm wallet, Net-banking
• User can cancel the order once the payment has been successful if required.
• User can return the product within a period of 30 days from the moment when order is Delivered.
• The admin/seller has a birds-eye view of all the orders divided into sections by their current status so that they can be managed with ease.
• The webpages are responsive and designed using Materialize

NPM Dependencies

• aws-sdk - AWS S3 for media storage
• bcryptjs - Hashing passwords
• body-parser - Body parsing middleware
• chalk - Colorful terminal!
• @sendgrid/mail - Sending mails
• cors - Cross-origin resource sharing
• crypto-random-string - Generating identifiers
• dotenv - Loading ENV vars
• ejs - Templating engine
• express - App framework
• express-fileupload - Uploading files
• express-messages - Flash messages
• express-mysql-session - Sessions store
• express-session - Sessions
• express-validator - Input validation
• jsonwebtoken - JWT
• lodash - JS utilities
• bad-words - Filtering profanity
• moment - Formatting timestamps
• morgan - Development logging
• mysql - MySQL connector
• passport - Authentication middleware
• passport-google-oauth20 - Google OAuth
• passport-local - Local authentication
• resize-img - Generating thumbnails
• shortid - Generating short ids
• uuid - Generating RFC4122 UUIDs
• nodemon - Easy development

Installation

1. Metacart requires Node.js to run.
2. Install the dependencies and devDependencies

$ npm install

3. Genetate all required API keys for PayTM, AWS, Google and SendGrid from their consoles
4. Acquire MySQL connection credentials and create tables
5. Use mkcert to generate self-signed SSL certificate for localhost
6. Create .env file in /config with following variables

$ touch .env

Variable	Value	Info
CALLBACK_URL	https://localhost:3000/checkout/paytm-response	Callback URL after PayTM payment
CHANNEL_ID	WEB	PayTM integration
INDUSTRY_TYPE_ID	Retail	PayTM integration
MID		PayTM merchant ID
PAYTM_FINAL_URL		PayTM URL for payment init
PAYTM_MERCHANT_KEY		PayTM merchant key
WEBSITE	WEBSTAGING	PayTM integration
CLIENT_URL	https://localhost:3000	App URL
DATABASE_HOST		MySQL hostname
DATABASE_NAME		MySQL DB name
DATABASE_PASSWORD		MySQL password
DATABASE_USER		MySQL username
EMAIL_FROM		Email address used to send
EMAIL_TO		Reply-to mail address
EXPRESS_SESSION_SECRET		Secret value
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID		Obtain Client ID from Google console
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET		Google client secret from console
JWT_ACCOUNT_ACTIVATION		Secret value to sign account activation link
JWT_PASSWORD_RESET		Secret value to sign forgot password link
NODE_ENV	development or production	Node environment
SENDGRID_API_KEY		Twilio Sendgrid API key
SESSION_SECRET		Secret value for sessions
AWS_ID		AWS integration id
AWS_SECRET		AWS secret key
AWS_BUCKET_NAME	ecommerce-metacart	AWS s3 media bucket name
SSL_CERT		Self signed SSL certificate for localhost
SSL_KEY		Self signed SSL key for localhost

7. Start the server

node app

8. Verify the deployment

https://localhost:3000

 

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Make sure app is running on HTTPS only, for its operation as intended

 

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