Flask + MongoDB Mini E-commerce

Features

• User registration / login / logout (password-less demo)
• Product CRUD (admin-only)
• Cart & checkout
• Categories: add at any depth (keeps both a nested tree and an adjacency list)
• Browse products by category (includes all descendants)

Setup & Run

# 1) Create and activate a Conda env (Python 3.13)
conda create -n db-project python=3.13
conda activate db-project

# 2) Install dependencies
pip install flask flask-login pymongo python-dotenv

# 3) Install MongodbMongoDB Community version

# 4) Start the app
python flask_ecommerce_novalidate.py

• Open http://127.0.0.1:5000/
• Register an account, then visit:

  http://127.0.0.1:5000/dev/make_admin/<your_email>
  

  to promote it to admin.
• Use the navigation to access Admin (Products) and Categories (Manage/Search).