GrocerEase - Grocery Store App

Modern Application Development II - Project

Project Overview

In this project, we were tasked to create a web-based grocery store application, which I have named 'GrocerEase'. Key features include product browsing, cart management, order placement for users; product CRUD, raise request for category CRUD, statistical summaries for store managers; category CRUD, store manager sign up and request approvals for admin.

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Technologies Used

• Frontend
  • Vue.js 2
  • VueRouter
  • Vuex
• Backend
  • Flask
  • Flask-SQLAlchemy
  • Flask-RESTful
  • Flask-Caching
  • Flask-Security
  • Celery
• Database
  • Redis
  • SQLite
• Mail
  • mailhog
  • smtplib

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Running the App

Following are the steps one can follow to run the app after unzipping the zip file:

1. Open terminal window and navigate to the Code folder after unzipping the zip file.

2. Run the build.sh file to set up the virtual environment and download essential packages/libraries:

$ source build.sh

3. Run the app:

$ python app.py

You can run the app on the IP address the terminal window is showing

4. In another terminal window, and run the REDIS server:

$ redis-server

5. In another terminal window, start the mailhog:

$ mailhog

6. In another terminal window, source the .venv and start the celery worker:

$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ celery -A app:celery_app worker --loglevel INFO

7. In another terminal window, source the .venv and start the celery beat:

$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ celery -A app:celery_app beat --loglevel INFO

The GrocerEase app is now ready to be explored!