Lost Horse Press

A full-stack MERN app using MySQL database with Sequelize, Node and Express on the backend, and React and Redux on the frontend.

USER stories

AS A USER, I WANT to visit this website, ENJOY an aesthetically pleasant experience, and FIND the information I’m interested in, potentially PLACING AN ORDER.

AS A PUBLISHER, I NEED to have an accessible website, to POST updates (events, new releases) and MANAGE my CATALOG and ORDERS without much trouble.

Technologies Used

BACKEND
- Shorthand: MERN / MVC
- Longhand:
- Validation and authentication
  - bCrypt
  - Passport
  - JWT / Passport-JWT
  - Validator / if-empty
- API routing - Axios
- Server - Node / Express
- Database - MySQL2 / Sequelize
- Payments - Stripe (to be implemented)
FRONTEND
- Shorthand: React / Redux
- Longhand:
- API - again, Axios
- Authentication - JWT-decode
- React libraries:
  - Animations (for landing page)
  - Foundation (for CSS framework)
  - Icons / Styled components (for sitemap modal and styling)
- Redux libraries:
  - Redux / React-redux
  - Middleware: Redux-thunk / Prop-types