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1 year ago Hi @talmax1124 Sounds like you have some great ideas and changes to your own projects, which I commend you for implementing. This repository though is very much for the MERN Stack From Scratch course as it currently is. If you are a student of Brad's then you can submit suggestions for future courses in his Discord server #suggestions channel. Perhaps what you are describing would be more suited to more intermediate students with prior experience of the MERN stack. Unless there is a specific issue with the current code base you're experiencing I'll close here.
Hello to all of you! I want to say thanks to @bradtraversy for updating this wonderful and great course / repo. It's great to see some improvements to be made but of course, everyone would like to see even more features to make it a full fledged e-commerce site that is great, redundant, and is ultimately safer and has a great UI. Ever since the first course, I have been making small tweaks here, minor tweaks there, and was really expecting for great features such as:
Better Authentication such as Auth0 which allows for users to sign in with just a click with Options such as Google. I have this option of Sign In With Google, with the authentication from this course using passport, but having everything in a very secure and centralized platforms such as Auth0 will be such a great thing to do, especially for something such as an e-commerce store that needs to store sensitive information. Maybe even switching the project to FireBase might even be a better option. Also, things such as Email Verification for Sign Ups, as I've done is something that is missed here.
Payment before order is placed is crucial to not have orders that will be empty and not be paid ever. For this case, I switched from PayPal and I am using Stripe and have moved the placement of screens. Stripe is great and allows for the Payment be done securely
Using a Shipping API such as Shippo to calculate shipping based on where it is being sent. (I also have this feature in my repo, but needs a bit more work, any contributions to my repo would be great).
Having Options. Many products have variations, so instead of creating new product listing for each variation, this can be done by creating new schemas. This is something that I think we can all work on together as a community
Minor Update could also be updated that can be done fairly easily:
So, if we can contribute together as devs, I know that we can create an even better version of this already great repository and great.
Thanks!
Below you can see my repository with features such as Email Verification using MailGun, Stripe, Shipping with Shippo API, and other minor improvements.
https://github.com/talmax1124/cdshop22