hotslab / OnlineMarketPlace

A simple online marketplace to place and sell goods

Joseph Nyahuye

OnlineMarketPlace

A simple online market place to buy, list and sell your own goods or services. It is built on a stack using Laravel 8, Boostrap 4 and Jquery 3.6. It also uses the Stripe API to do online payments, and for email uses the ElasticEmail service to notify customers, all under a simulated test environment.

Git clone project

git clone https://github.com/hotslab/OnlineMarketPlace.git 

OR 

git clone [e-mail]:hotslab/OnlineMarketPlace.git

cd OnlineMarketPlace

Install packages and copy .env file

cp .env.example .env
composer install
npm install
npm run dev

Install SQL Lite and run migrations

sudo apt update
sudo apt install sqlite3
sudo apt install php-sqlite3

touch database/database.sqlite
touch database/testdatabase.sqlite

php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed --optional for testing and will delete all the data in the sqlite database if run

Create symbolic link for image uploads

php artisan storage:link

Running the app

• Open three separate terminals and run the following in each respectively to test the app:

php artisan serve -vvv
npm run watch
php artisan queue:work --tries=3 -vvv

• Open the url show in the terminal for the php artisan serve -vvv command to view the app.

• The test user credentials to login and view the app is:

Email - [e-mail]
Password -testpassword1234

Unit testing

php artisan test -vvv