Nike E-Commerce Shop (Backend)

An e-commerce application for a fresh, colorful and minimalist look of Nike shopping experience, built with JavaScript, React, React-Query, Material-UI, CSS, NodeJS, ExpressJS, PostgreSQL, JWT and Stripe Payment API.

Frontend Code Repo

Project Screen Shot(s)

Installation and Setup Instructions

Clone down this repository. You will need node and npm installed globally on your machine.

Installation:

npm install

To Start Server:

npm start

Reflection

What was the context for this project?

This was a 3 months long project built during May 2021 to Aug 2021. Project goals included building a simple yet extraordinary e-commerce web app using technologies like JavaScript, Node and React.

What did you set out to build?

Originally I wanted to build an application that allowed users to shop nike sneakers with a pleasant user experience and a easy payment experience using stripe. I started this process by building the API-Backend using Node & ExpressJS and using the create-react-app boilerplate for the frontend.

Why was this project challenging and therefore a really good learning experience?

One of the main challenges I ran into was Authentication. This lead me to spend a few days on a research spike into OAuth, Auth0, JWT and many more things. But due to project time constraints, I finally decided to use JWT authentication system as of now.

Conclusion

At the end of the day, it was a great experience building the project, I had to learn plenty of new things, although I build it for my portfolio, it's almost a 90% production-grade application which can be put into live for public with a few tweak. In the next iteration I plan to clean some code and restructure the codebase.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0.