The Virtual Mall

An e-commerce web application with a product catalog, cart, checkout, customer reviews, authentication, product searching and different product sorting options. Session persistence of the cart is also implemented for unauthenticated users. Customer support live chat implemented using React Hooks and Firebase Realtime Database.

Demo: https://youtu.be/8WrbguKxzbk

Prerequisites

• PostgreSQL

Getting Started

Fork and clone this repository. Then execute the following:

npm install

If postgres CLI tools installed, run createdb the-virtual-mall-app in terminal, or create a database in the postgres GUI with the name the-virtual-mall-app

Start

Running npm run start-dev will make great things happen!

If you want to run the server and/or webpack separately, you can also npm run start-server and npm run build-client.

Built With

• Node.js - Javascript Environment
• Express.js - web framework used to setup server
• React - Front end framework for developing our web app
• Redux.js - state management
• PostgreSQL - SQL database used to store long term, relation user information
• Sequelize - promise-based Node.js ORM for Postgres
• Semantic UI React - React integration for Semantic UI, a front-end development framework
• Stripe - APIs for payment processing
• Firebase - a cloud-hosted, NoSQL database

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.