Jacob-Clark-809 / shopping-cart

Application for tracking items added to shopping cart. Includes express backend and react frontend.

Shopping Cart App

Application for tracking items added to shopping cart. Includes express backend and react frontend.

Setup

1. Install Node.js if you haven't already
2. Clone this repository
3. cd into the downloaded directory
4. cd into server and run npm install from the command line to install all dependencies

DataBase Setup

1. Create mongoDB account - https://account.mongodb.com/account/register
2. Create a free AWS cluster
3. Go to collections (Browse Collections) and create a new database (shopping_cart) for example with two collections products and cartitems. Note: If you are going to work in pairs create two databases (for example team1_shopping and team2_shopping) and each database should have two collections products and cartitems.
4. Under Security tab, click Database Access, and on the right add new database user. After you enter username and password, click add user at the bottom right corner.
5. Under Security tab, click Network Access, and whitelist your IP address.
6. Once your cluster is created, under Clusters tab, click connect and then MongoDB for VSCode and copy the connection string which will look something like this mongodb+srv://test123:<password>@cluster0-zamyu.mongodb.net/. Instead of test123 there will be your username, and you will need to replace <password> with your password and test with the database name. You will have to put the name of your database after the connection string with some flags mongodb+srv://test123:<password>@cluster0-zamyu.mongodb.net/<databaseName>?retryWrites=true&w=majority. Change <databaseName> with the name of your database.
7. Finally, inside your project folder, cd into server, create new file .env and enter DB=<paste the string from above here>. It will look similar to this DB=mongodb+srv://test123:[e-mail]/shopping_cart?retryWrites=true&w=majority.

DOCS

You can find documentation in the docs folder in api.md file.