E-Commerce Project

Setup Instructions

1. Clone the Project:

        git clone [email protected]:vaibhav1me/E-Commerce-MERN.git
        cd frontend
        npm install
        cd ../server
        npm install

• Make sure you have nodemon installed, you can install it via the following command in terminal

    npm install -g nodemon

• Create a .env file inside server directory

      MONGO_URI = "Your MONGO_URI string here"
      JWT_SECRET = "Your JWT Secret Here"
      PORT = 3000 or any other port that you want

• Create a .env file inside frontend directory

  • Here replace PORT by the port number on which your server is running

    VITE_BACKEND_URI = " http://localhost:PORT"  

• Go to index.js file in server directory and write the following code

  const Product = require("./models/Product"); //added line
  const Category = require("./models/Category"); //added line
  const { products, categories } = require("./demo_data"); //added line
  
  /* ------Rest index.js code-----*/
  await connectDb(process.env.MONGO_URI);
  await Product.create(products); //added line
  await Category.create(categories); //added line
  
  /* ------Rest index.js code-----*/

• Now in terminal make sure you are in server directory and run the following command

    npm start

• Verify that demo data has been added to your mongo database
• Now remove the added lines from index.js file to avoid duplicating data many times
• You can also delete demo_data.js file in server directory. It is no longer needed if data has been added successfully to database
• Now open a new terminal and got to frontend directory

    cd frontend

• Now run the following command

    npm run dev

• Now go to the frontend URL provided by vite and you are good to go and start using the web app