Sweetie Pie Bakery

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📢 About

I have two great loves: coding and dessert. Here's my shot at mixing the two!

Sweetie Pie is an ecommerce app that I built because I wanted some practice with building that kind of an application, managing and controlling state, and payment gateways.

I also wanted to google desserts without feeling (as) guilty.

✅ How It's Made

Lessons Learned

There's a lot more to cover about the process, because it was a bit involved. I got some experience with ant design for different ui elements, and react toast for toast status messages. There was also an opportunity to learn a little about payment gateways with paypal and braintree.

I'm going to look a little bit deeper in the payment gateways, to give myself more familiarity there.

Additionally, I got more experience working deeper into react, undestanding more about context, useState and useEffect. I'm really becoming a bigger and bigger fan of React, for sure!

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🚀 Getting Started

💻 Install

• Fork and clone the repository to your local computer.
• Complete and store an .env file in the server/config folder.
• npm install in the root folder, which installs the required dependencies.
• And, npm run dev in the root folder.
• This runs a local instance of mongodb. You can connect to it by connecting to mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/ with any MongoDB client like Compass.

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Optimizations

There is so much I still want to tackle if I get the time! Various sizing and position changes, re-scaling images, general styling, etc. I think I need to get away from bootsrap for components and ui elements; I'm seeing it in alot of my work, and it doesn't really do this project justice. I think I want to redesign with Material UI.

I also want to take some time to refactor and make more things into components if I can. I'll tackle that around the same time I get back into redesigning the UI with Material UI. I'm sure there's plenty to be done there.

There are also a couple pages and elements of pages that I want to flesh out a little more fully; things like the about page is a little bare. There's a section of the administrator's contorls for the app in which I want to display information about the app's user base, but I'm on the fenc with that one. I would like to give the site more personality, by fleshing out a home-made goods feel, like with photos of the family that owns the bakery, and including elements of their story in more places. Maybe include a few recipes and such.

The more I think about it, more things come to mind to pour some work into as I get the time. For one: I need to make adjustments to page titles for SEO; I originally was building this to be a camera and photography related type-deal, but got inspired to focus on desserts when I got hungry about 2/3rds through production.

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