rscottjohnson / Bamazon

An Amazon-like storefront using Node.js & MySQL

Bamazon

An Amazon-like storefront using Node.js & MySQL

Bamazon is an Amazon-like storefront that takes in orders from customers and deplete stock from the store's inventory via a console interface.

Motivation

Bamazon is a command line node app, which complies with the guidelines of:

• Utilizing npm packages to access and format data.
• Establishing a package.json for npm package version info and install requirements.
• Deploying to GitHub.

Project Usefulness

This command line app is useful as a tool for working with database data through interaction and input from a user. It provides an example of how npm packages can be utilized to assist in connecting to a database, and working with console logging table data from a database response.

Getting Started

Bamazon Customer Interface

Upon loading, Bamazon presents the user with:

1. A display all of the available items. This includes the ids, names, and prices of products for sale.

2. The app should then prompt users with two messages.

   • The first asks them the ID of the product they would like to buy.
   • The second asks how many units of the product they would like to buy.
   • If the store has enough of the product, the order is fulfilled.
   • The SQL database is updated to reflect the remaining quantity.
   • The total cost of the purchase is presented to the customer.

3. If the store doesn't have enough of the product, the app logs a phrase of insufficient quantity, and then prevents the order from going through.

   

Bamazon Manager Interface

1. The manager is presented with five available options:
   • View products for Sale
   • View Low Inventory
   • Add to Inventory
   • Add New Product
   • Exit

2. If a manager selects View Products for Sale, the app lists every available item: the item IDs, names, prices, and quantities.

3. If a manager selects View Low Inventory, it lists all items with an inventory count lower than five.

4. If a manager selects Add to Inventory, the app displays a prompt that will let the manager "add more" of any item currently in the store.

5. If a manager selects Add New Product, it allows the manager to add a completely new product to the store.

6. If a manager selects Exit, it quits the manager interface.

APIs / Libraries / Technology used

In order to provide the user with this information, the following are used:

• npm - inquirer
• npm - mysql
• npm - console.table
• MySQL database
• sql schema and seeds for database

Credits

Bamazon was created by Scott Johnson.