ShopNX - Shopping Cart with AngularJS (eCommerce web application)

A single page Shopping Cart web applications with many necessary features of an ecommerce application.

Requirements

Install the following 2 softwares

Node http://nodejs.org/ (Server)
MongoDB https://www.mongodb.org/ (Database) - You need to start the mongodb database by browsing into the bin directory and running mongod.exe or mongod.sh

Install

Run the following commands and the application will start automatically

npm install yo -g (Install yeoman for scaffolding web application)
npm install grunt-cli -g (This creates and runs javascript repetitive tasks )
npm install bower -g ( A frontend package manager for web applications)
npm install generator-angular-fullstack -g ( A frontend package manager for web applications)
npm install (Install all nodejs dependencies)
bower install (Automatically installs all bower dependencies)
grunt serve (Starts the application in development mode)
grunt serve:dist --force (--- Optional --- This will generate the code for production/distribution) The code is placed inside the dist directory

Scaffolding the application

The following are basic commands which will generate the required code for your app.

yo angular-fullstack:endpoint myApi [Will generate a new api endpoint named myApi for you]
                           This can be accessed at http://localhost:9000/api/myApi

yo angular-fullstack:route myRoute [This will automatically generate a new route for the application]
                        We can access it by pointing to http://localhost:9000/myRoute
                        This route's content can be modified from client/app/myRoute directory

Coding standards

All AngularJS directives are placed inside client/app/directive
AngularJS filters are placed inside client/app/filters
Application authentication routes are under client/app/account

Features

Store Front features

Single page web app (SPA) created using AngularJS, NodeJS, Express, MongoDB (MEAN)
Fastest shop experience
Fast Product Search, Filter with AJAX
Price slider and multiple brand selector
Faster Add to Cart and Product Details
Checkout with Paypal Integration
Minimal User Registration process
Order history and Password Management
Facility for Multi level Category
Mobile optimized with Bootstrap
Instant updates for any changes made across all clients with SocketIO implementation
Loads more products on scroll (No paging required)
Clean and responsive user interface

Store Back Office

Products, Categories, Brand, Order Management from admin panel with easy directives
Manage Order and Change Status from admin panel
Facility for Multiple product variants (size, color, price, image)
User roles - Administrator, User, Guest
SEO friendly URLs for each page
Secure and quality code - Takes care all single page web app standards
Securely built and prevent security attacks

Future Plan

Plan to add OAUTH login with facebook, gmail, twitter

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