E-Commerce Web Application using MERN Stack and Microservices Architecture

Description

This is a web application for an e-commerce store that sells games. It is built using the MERN stack and Microservices Architecture. It has a user interface for the customers to view the products and add them to their cart. The application is built using the Microservices Architecture, where each service is a separate Node.js application.

Installation

Use the package manager npm to install dependencies.

npm install

Usage

1. Create a .env file in the root directory and add the following environment variables (replace all #### with your own values):

PORT=####
MONGO_USERNAME=####
MONGO_PASSWORD=####
MONGO_CLUSTER=####
MONGO_DBNAME=####
ACCESS_TOKEN=####

2. Run the following command to start the application:

npm run dev

3. Open the following URL in your browser:

http://localhost:<port_no>/

4. Or you can use docker-compose to run the application:

docker-compose up

5. Show the running containers:

docker ps

6. Get the container ip address:

docker inspect <container_id> | grep "IPAddress"

7. Open the following URL in your browser:

http://<container_ip_address>:<port_no>/

8. To run the frontend application, run the following command:

cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

9. Open the following URL in your browser:

http://localhost:5173/

Products json file

• Products json file

Technologies

• React vite
• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB
• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Microservices Architecture