IIITL-DeV / Bookstore

Bookstore

Project for IIIT Lucknow

Online Second Hand book store to buy, sell used books & specially for Competitive Exams.

Contributors

• Abhishek Singh (LIT2019008)
  • Frontend Lead, API calling and exception handeling, Testing
• Sumit Kumar (LIT2019009)
  • UI/UX design, Skeleton modeling of frontend, Breakdowns testing, basic css support
• Kushagra Patel (LCS2019071)
  • React Component handeling, raw html css handeling, resolving warnings
• Rohit Kumar (LIT2019037)
  • Backend Lead, Database Creation & handeling, API creation & handeling.
• Rahul Yadav (LIT2019010)
  • API testing with Postman, Added express validators in all APIs, and resolved bugs

Built With

Frontend

• React
• Firebase
• Axios

Backend

• MongoDB
• NodeJS
• ExpressJs
• Postman

Requirements

You will need node and npm installed globally on your machine.

• Download and Install Nodejs

• Open terminal, write the following command and press enter.

$ npm -v

The terminal should return your npm version.

How to set up your local environment

Clone App

• Make a new folder and open the terminal there.
• Write the following command and press enter.

$ git clone https://github.com/RohitKumar-200/Bookstore.git

For Frontend

1. Move to Frontend directory

$ cd Frontend

2. Install node packages

$ npm install

3. Run Locally

$ npm start

For Backend

1. Move to Backend directory

$ cd Backend

2. create a .env file in Backend directory and add following variables in it

DATABASE=<MongoDB connection string>
JWT_SECRET=<Any randomly created secret>
SENDGRID_API_KEY=<Sendgrid API to send e-mails>

3. Install node packages

$ npm install

4. Run Locally

$ npm start

Some points to consider

• Currently frontend is connected to a api which is hosted in heroku
• To connect locally hosted backend to frontend, change base API url in frontend to http://localhost:4000

Links

• Website URL
• Deployed backend
• Github repository
• Database models

Screenshots