firepo / rest-api-for-ecommerce

MEAN CART | A MEAN stack based Ecommerce backend and Frontend Project using REST api

Description

An e-commerce application with the MEAN stack.

Prerequisites

Git NodeJs NPM MongoDB

Running

(Note: these instructions are for Ubuntu Linux based OS. Assuming nodejs, npm and mongodb is already installed).

running mongodb:

    1). Open Terminal and change directory to where mongodb is installed in bin folder.
    2). user@linux: ~/path/to/mongodb/bin $ ./mongod 
    3). press enter database server will start.

unzipping and installing dependencies:

    1). Unzip the downloaded file.
    2). Open the extracted folder.
    3). Right click somewhere in folder and select Open in Terminal.
    4). Type Command : npm install and press enter. This will install all dependencies shown in package.json file.

running project:

for backend admin:
  Step 1: Install all dependencies by : npm install and run node server.js
  Step 2: Sign up for the admin account @ http://localhost:8000/admin/signup
  Step 3: Now you're good to go.
  Step 4: Now Login  @http://localhost:8000/admin/login
  Step 5: Now create some products to show at user end and see the magic.

for frontend user:
  Step 1: Install all dependencies by : npm install and run node app.js
  Step 2: site works at. http://localhost:5000
  Step 3: you are good to go now. Create account,shop, add to cart, checkout, orders, profile settings.

Built With

OS : Linux Mint

API Tool : Postman