🛒 SkyCommerce — Production MERN E-Commerce on AWS

A production-grade full-stack e-commerce platform built with the MERN stack and deployed on AWS using industry-standard DevOps practices. Features a fully automated CI/CD pipeline — every git push to main automatically builds, tests, and deploys to AWS ECS Fargate with zero downtime.

🌐 Live URL: http://skycommerce-alb-1652530944.ap-south-1.elb.amazonaws.com

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📸 Screenshots

Homepage

Admin Dashboard

CI/CD Pipeline — GitHub Actions

AWS ECS Services

CloudWatch Monitoring Dashboard

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🏗️ Architecture

User Browser │ ▼ AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) │ ├── /api/* ──► Backend ECS Fargate (Node.js :5001) │ │ │ ┌──────▼──────┐ │ │ MongoDB │ │ │ Atlas │ │ └─────────────┘ │ ┌──────────────┐ │ │ AWS Secrets │ │ │ Manager │ │ └─────────────┘ │ └── /* ──► Frontend ECS Fargate (Nginx :80) │ React.js SPA (Redux) All containers ──► CloudWatch Logs + Alarms

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🚀 CI/CD Pipeline

Every push to main triggers automatic deployment:

git push origin main │ ▼ GitHub Actions (~4 minutes) │ ├── Job 1: Test & Lint (15s) │ Backend syntax check │ Frontend build verification │ ├── Job 2: Build & Push (60s) │ Docker build (linux/amd64) │ Push to AWS ECR │ └── Job 3: Deploy to ECS (2m 38s) Update ECS services Zero downtime rolling deploy Wait for health checks

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Application

Layer	Technology
Frontend	React.js 18, Redux Toolkit, Tailwind CSS, Vite
Backend	Node.js 20, Express.js, REST API
Database	MongoDB Atlas (managed cloud)
Auth	JWT with HTTP-only cookies
Payment	Stripe (test mode)

DevOps & Cloud

Tool	Purpose
Docker	Multi-stage builds, Nginx, non-root security
AWS ECS Fargate	Serverless container orchestration
AWS ECR	Private Docker image registry
AWS ALB	Load balancer with path-based routing
AWS VPC	Custom network, public/private subnets
AWS Secrets Manager	Secure secrets — never in code
AWS CloudWatch	Logs, metrics, 4 alarms, dashboard
Terraform	34 AWS resources as Infrastructure as Code
GitHub Actions	3-job CI/CD pipeline
Git + GitHub	Branch protection, PR workflow

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☁️ AWS Infrastructure (Terraform IaC)

34 resources managed as code — entire infrastructure recreatable in 5 minutes:

Networking VPC, 4 Subnets, IGW, Route Tables, Security Groups Load Balancing ALB, 2 Target Groups, Listener, Path Rules Containers ECS Cluster, 2 Task Definitions, 2 Fargate Services Registry 2 ECR Repositories with lifecycle policies Security 2 IAM Roles, 2 IAM Policies, Secrets Manager Monitoring 2 Log Groups, 4 Alarms, Dashboard, SNS Topic

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📁 Project Structure

SkyCommerce/
├── .github/
│   └── workflows/
│       └── deploy.yml          # GitHub Actions CI/CD
├── backend/
│   ├── config/
│   │   └── db.js               # MongoDB connection
│   ├── controllers/            # Business logic handlers
│   ├── middleware/             # Auth, error, upload
│   ├── models/                 # Mongoose schemas
│   ├── routes/                 # API endpoints
│   ├── Dockerfile              # Multi-stage build
│   └── server.js               # Express entry point
├── frontend/
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── components/         # Reusable UI components
│   │   ├── pages/              # Route pages
│   │   ├── redux/              # State management
│   │   └── utils/              # Axios interceptors
│   ├── Dockerfile              # Multi-stage + Nginx
│   ├── nginx.conf              # Production Nginx config
│   └── vite.config.js          # Vite configuration
├── terraform/
│   ├── main.tf                 # Provider + data sources
│   ├── vpc.tf                  # Network infrastructure
│   ├── ecs.tf                  # ECS cluster + services
│   ├── ecr.tf                  # Docker image registry
│   ├── alb.tf                  # Load balancer + routing
│   ├── iam.tf                  # Roles and policies
│   ├── secrets.tf              # AWS Secrets Manager
│   ├── cloudwatch.tf           # Monitoring + alerts
│   ├── variables.tf            # Input variables
│   └── outputs.tf              # Output values
├── screenshots/                # Project screenshots
├── docker-compose.yml          # Local development
└── README.md

✨ Features

Customer

• Browse and search products by category/keyword
• Product details with ratings and reviews
• Shopping cart with quantity management
• Checkout with shipping address
• Order history and tracking
• JWT authentication (register/login/logout)

Admin

• Dashboard with revenue, orders, users metrics
• Full product CRUD (create, edit, delete)
• Order management (mark as delivered)
• User management

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🔒 Security

• All secrets in AWS Secrets Manager — zero secrets in code
• JWT tokens with bcrypt password hashing (10 rounds)
• Non-root user inside Docker containers
• IAM least privilege — CI/CD user has minimum permissions
• Branch protection — PRs required, no direct push to main
• ECR image scanning on every push
• Network isolation with VPC security groups

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📊 Monitoring

Alarm	Threshold	Action
Backend CPU	> 80%	Email alert
Backend Memory	> 80%	Email alert
ALB 5XX Errors	> 10/min	Email alert
Response Time	> 5 seconds	Email alert

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🏃 Local Development

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/jillani-07/skycommerce.git
cd skycommerce

# Backend
cd backend
cp .env.example .env
npm install
npm run dev

# Frontend (new terminal)
cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

# Or run everything with Docker
docker-compose --env-file .env.docker up --build

Seed database:

cd backend
node seeder.js
# Admin: admin@skycommerce.com / admin123456

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👤 Author

Jillani Ansari

• GitHub: @jillani-07
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jillani05

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📄 License

MIT License