React Ecomerce Website for Creatella Project

This is intended only for the Creatella's use. It is done has a test project, to show my abilities to Creatella. The application is built using the library React JS.

Main Features

• Products are displayed in a grid.
• The user has an option to sort the products by "size", "price" or "id". The products list reloads when a new sorting option is chosen.
• Each product has a "size" field price field and date.
• The font-size (in pixels). The "price" is formatted as dollars like $3.51. The "date" field, displays relative time (eg. "3 days ago") ,unless they are older than 1 week.
• The product grid automatically load more items as you scroll down.
• An animated loading ("loading..." if CSS not wokring) message is shown while the user waits for the data to load.
• Data is fetch whenever the user scroll, a loading animation is displayed to improve the user's experience.
• When the user reaches the end and there are no more products to display, the message "~ end of catalogue ~" is shown.

Ads features

• After every 20 products a modal pops up with an advertisement from a sponsor. The same markup as the advertisement in the header shown in public/index/html,was used and ?r query param is used to randomly generate a new image each time an ad is displayed.
• The Ads are randomly selected, A user never sees the same ad twice in a row.

Other feactures

• Responsive website
• Sign In and Sign up buttons.
• The user can add items to the cart.
• Total Items and prices are displayed
• Side drawer for mobile (<768px).

New Things I've learnt in this project

• Using window onscroll method along with other window objects to calculate the screen size for infinte scrolling.

• Using { responseType: "arraybuffer" } to received images form a server in binary data. Then you can convert back that data to be displayed on your website.

What is left to be done

• Add state manager sucher as redux.
• Add missing pages and links to complete the application (e.g:Directory link and checkout page).
• Form validation
• Test for bugs and fix.

Installation

• clone the repository-https://github.com/Keronmat/createller-ecommerce-site.git

• Use terminal to browse to the repository - cd creatella-ecommerce-site

• Run the command - npm install /yarn

• Start the application - npm start yarn start

• npm install/ yarn start Runs the app in the development mode.
  Set to be open on http://localhost:3005 to view it in the browser.

Get the Server up and running

• git clone creatella-ecommerce-server
• At any location on your computer in a folder, extract the SERVER files.
• Oper your terminal and move to the folder creatella-ecommerce-server -cd creatella-ecommerce-server.
• Run the command - npm install /yarn.
• Start the server - npm start yarn start

The server will now be up and running.

Both server and application needs to be up at the same time.

Author

Keron Matthews