Simple E-Commerce API

Overview

A comprehensive e-commerce API that integrates JWT authentication for secure user sessions and Stripe for payment processing. It includes features such as user creation, shopping cart management, product listings, and the ability to create and edit products in the database. The API allows users to add products to a cart, handle payments via Stripe, and manage product inventory dynamically.

This API has the following features:

• JWT authentication for secure user sessions
• User registration and login
• Shopping cart management
• Integration with Stripe for payment processing
• Product listings and detailed view
• Ability to create new products
• Edit existing products in the database
• Manage product inventory dynamically
• Handle user payments and update cart status

Project idea from: https://roadmap.sh/projects/ecommerce-api

How to Run the Project

1. Clone the project repo

git clone https://github.com/NAJIB-B/simple-E-commerce-API.git

2. Navigate into the project directory

cd simple-E-commerce-API

3. Install the dependencies

npm install

4. Create your own MongoDB database

(I used MongoDB Atlas)

5. I used mail trap and nodemailer for my email service. you can check them out on npm

(So be sure to use those unless you want to edit the project and use something else)

6. Create your .env file

touch .env

7. Add the following environment variables

Populate the .env file with the following variables, replacing the placeholders with your own details:

DATABASE="mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@cluster0.mongodb.net/<database-name>?retryWrites=true&w=majority&appName=Cluster0"

PORT=<port>
JWT_SECRET=<your-access-token-secret>
JWT_EXPIRES_IN=<time-for-expiry>
    
MAIL_HOST=<your-mail-host>
MAIL_PORT=<your-mail-port>
MAIL_USERNAME=<your-mail-username>
MAIL_PASSWORD=<your-mail-password>

STRIP_API_KEY=<your-stripe-api-key>
STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET=<your-stripe-webhook-secret>


  
  

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8. Run the project

npm start