Men's Tribe

Ecommerce App Built with the Mern Stack.

Things to Learn While Building

• MicroServices Architecture (not using bcoz of complexity) ❌
• Azure - Deploying backend.
• mongoDB Atlas - deploy database
• vercel - Deploy frontend.
• OAuth for github and google Auth.
• Integrating External Api's like Strip and razorpay for payments, twilio for notifications.
• Testing (postman, jest, supertest, mongodb-memory-server) -> unit test + integration tests.

Local Development

1. Fork the repository

2. Clone it on your local machine.

   git clone https://github.com/username/mernEcommerce.git
   

3. Start Backend

     cd mernEcommerce/server
     npm install
   

• create a .env file and add the your mongodb uri and other variables similar to .env.example

   touch .env
  

• To run the backend

   npm start
  

5. Start frontend

   cd mernEcommerce/client
   npm install
   

• create a .env file and add Github client and url similar to .env.example

  touch .env
  

• To Run the frontend

   npm run dev
  

6. To insert products data into the mongodb database

   cd server/src/utils/
   node insertData.js