Node-e-commerce

This is a sample application that demonstrates an E-commerce website using the EJS Template and NodeJS. The application loads products using MongoDB database and displays them. Users can click on any product to get more information including pricing, description, add to cart, they can select items and add them to their shopping cart,they you visit carts page and place their order which redirects user to a payment portal, once the payment is done user will redirect to orders page where he can download his invoice.

Live Demonstration

The E-commerce demo can be viewed online here.

Getting Started

To get started you can simply clone this node-e-commerce repository and install the dependencies.

Clone the node-e-commerce repository using git:

git clone https://github.com/msmmanoj/node-e-commerce.git
cd node-e-commerce

Install dependencies with this command:

npm install

Before running the application need to generate a couple of api keys and copy those into nodemon.json

create Twilio sendgrid API key here viewed online here.

create Stripe API key here viewed online here.

nodemon.json env variable structure

{
  "env": {
    "MONGO_DB_NAME": "provide your mongo db name",
    "MONGO_PASSWORD": "provide your mongo db password",
    "MONGO_USER": "provide your mongo db user name",
    "SEND_GRID_API_KEY": "sendgrid API KEY",
    "ADMIN_MAIL_ID": "provide your sendgrid mail id",
    "STRIPE_KEY": "Stripe API Key"
  }
}

Run the application with this command:

npm run dev

Application Dependencies

• EJS

  Used EJS Template for generating HTML markup with plain JavaScript

• Node.js

  Used NodeJS express framework for building backend

• Mongo DB (Mongoose)

  Used mongoose ODM to manage relationships between data and for creating model classes

• Twilio SendGrid

  Used Twilio SendGrid for backend mail services

• Stripe

  Used Stripe APIs to accept payments, send payouts, and manage businesses online.

• pdfkit

  Used for generating Order invoice documents

• multer

  Used Multer for handling multipart/form-data

Future Releases

• Working on moving from EJS Templates to React
• Integrate NodejS testing framework
• Enable Auto deployment

Author

Malepati Manoj

• github/msmmanoj

License

Copyright © 2021 Malepati Manoj