E-commerce-MERN-stack-web-application

Project Demo

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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

NPM / Yarn and Node.js installed

.env

In the server > .env file, you can find some information. Please use your own API key for future use, as this key may not work in the future.

BRAINTREE_MERCHANT_ID=your_id
BRAINTREE_PUBLIC_KEY=your_public_key
BRAINTREE_PRIVATE_KEY=your_private_key

Installing

Installing NPM modules on both client and server folders

Execute these commands from the project directory

cd client && npm install

cd server && npm install

Running the app

Open a terminal on server directory

npm run start:dev

and open another terminal on client directory

npm run start

Access the web app at http://localhost:3000/

Deploying the backend server to render

Follow these setps 👇👇

  1. Create your render account in https://render.com/
  2. Connect your github to render and give the project permission for that
  3. Then create a new Web Service and add your repo (your repo must be look like this repo’s folder structure like frontend and backend both in that repo)
  4. For deploying this, every change will be in this render-deploy-backend branch. So don’t change your .evn from master branch.

  5. You have to change your database to local to mongodb atlas. Because in this deployment we are not creating db server. So we will be using mongo atlas url. So find your mongodb cloud url with database which will look like this: mongodb+srv://myusername:myclusterpassword@mycluster.mongodb.net/ecommerce?retryWrites=true&w=majority and goto the render-deploy-backend branch and goto .env file and replace the first variable to your latest mongodb cloud url like this: DATABASE=mongodb+srv://myusername:myclusterpassword@mycluster.mongodb.net/ecommerce?retryWrites=true&w=majority Don’t just put this url. Your url will be different. You will find it in your mongo cluster setting. The old variable will be like this: DATABASE=mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/ecommerce and your new one should look like this: DATABASE=mongodb+srv://myusername:myclusterpassword@mycluster.mongodb.net/ecommerce?retryWrites=true&w=majority you can find the mongo url by goto the mongodb atlas website and goto your database and you can find a connect button and click on that you will see the url. And modify the url quite like my one with your secret info. N.B: And you must need to provide the cluster password not your account password! So find your cluster password from database access menu in mongodb atlast cloud and change accoding to you. Here I provide all image’s that you can undarstand better Alt Text Alt Text Alt Text

  6. Then come to render website. Give all of the imformations I set in the image below just change the name of your project and then must be change the branch name to master to render-deploy-backend

  7. This is the setup for render Alt Text

  8. After all the setup you finished create the web service and It will deploy the project.

You can deploy frontend into vercel or netlify also. Thanks