rookie-cookie / vending-mern

Vending Machine Mock App - MERN

Vending Machine App

Simple vending machine mock application
Full stack application built on MERN stack
Customers can buy their favorite virtual soda in which they can get json file with all the cool information about their drink

Admins can easily update their stock by accessing the admin page
New products can be easily added as well
Edit and Delete each product according to business needs

For Future improvement
Make use of payment API like stripe
Add login page for the admins

Technologies used

FRONTEND
React
React Router
Functional Components
React Hooks
Material UI

BACKEND
Express
MongoDB
Mongo Atlas

npm install

In the vending-app project directory, you can run:

npm run start

Links

API from DB: http://localhost:8000/api/products

In the vending-machine project directory, you can run:

npm start

or

npm devStart

For the front end: http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser.

For the DB

create an env file with your MONGO_URI=mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@<clustername>/<database>?retryWrites=true&w=majority

run the seederscript to load data to the database

npm run data:import