E-commerce app made with React and Meteorjs (Mantra Architecture)

This is a basic e-commerce web app created with Meteor, React and the Mantra architecture. I created this from scratch as a hiring procedure from my previous company. I have very little experience with Meteor and JavaScript in particular when I created this and it was under a time limit, so sorry for the messy code :D

BASIC REQUIREMENTS:

FRONTEND / SHOP :

• Search categories / products**
• Browse categories / products
• Shopping cart
• Purchase / checkout of products (without singup/login)
• Receive email on purchase
• Receive email on shipped

ADMIN :

• Login
• Add/update/delete categories (with photos)
• Update orders to shipped
• Daily email to admin of total sales
• Logout

** Products can be searched through full text matches and can be filtered by categories

Starting the app

The project consists of two apps which are both inside the test-project/ directory:

• admin/ - contains the admin app
• shop/ - contains the frontend shop

The shop connects to the MongoDB server started by the admin app. In order to easily start and reset the project as needed, I have provided two basic shell scripts to run and or reset both applications simultaneously:

• ./reset.sh - execute this to reset both Meteor projects simultaneously
• /.run.sh - start the admin on PORT 3000 and the shop on PORT 4000. This script also handles the environment variables of the two applications for the MAIL_URL and MONGO_URL
• The frequency of the daily sales mailer can be changed (for testing) at Line 8 of the admin/server/configs/scheduler.js. It uses Later.js syntax for specifying the frequency. The default configuration that I have set is for it to send the sales report at exactly 11:00 PM everyday. It was tested to work by using every 1 min as the parameter.

Todos / needs improvement :

• pagination and search using reg exp instead of word stems
• refactor code in the shop application (I did this last, and I was falling out of schedule so it was rushed)
• improve / style the emails sent through the mailer (I decided not to clutter the code anymore with long html strings to design the emails, and using packages will use more time, so I just made it simple)
• use standard XHR methods to handle file uploads (instead of a deprecated package)
• use proper validations (very basic validations (if not) were used, I focused more on having all requirements to work)
• overall design (the site lacks imagination and heavily relied on default bootstrap classes)