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