README.md

eMarketplace

An online marketplace simulating a digital store inventory with a user account system that allows users to place an order for items/services and checkout. This store allows a user to:

• Create an account
• Log in & Edit an account
• Add items to a cart
• Update and remove Items from the cart
• Submit an order.
• View placed order.
• View all orders placed from that account.

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Getting Started

To use this project, you'll need to do the following:

• Clone this repository onto your computer or upload it to heroku.

• If you're running it locally on your pc, also perform these steps:

  • run npm i from the terminal (this will install the npm modules: dotenv, bcrypt, connect-session-sequelize, express, express-handlebars, express-session, mysql2, passport, sequelize and validator)
  • create the mysql database using the schema.sql file
  • create a .env file with your MySQL Database password in the following format (this was included in the .gitignore file to prevent the password from being exposed on Github):

  # Database Connection Url for connectioning to your local database.
  DEV_DATABASE_URL='mysql://[db_username]:[db_password]@[db_host]/[db_name]'

This file will be imported by config/config.json while running on your computer locally because of the following changes to the config/config.json file.

{
  "development": {
    "use_env_variable": "DEVELOPMENT_DB_URL"
  },
  "test": {
    "use_env_variable": "TEST_DB_URL",
    "dialect": "mysql"
  },
  "production": {
    "use_env_variable": "JAWSDB_URL"
  }
}

• run 'server.js' to dynamically create the required tables
• seed the newly created database tables with the seeds.sql file

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Our MySQL database layout for this project:

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NPM Packages used in this project

Dependencies:

• bcrypt - library to hash passwords.
• connect-session-sequelize - Sequelize SessionStore for Express/Connect
• dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.
• express - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.
• express-handlebars - Handlebars view engine for Express
• express-session - session middleware for Express
• mysql2 - MySQL client for Node.js
• passport - Authentication for Node.js.
• sequelize - promise-based Node.js ORM

Devevelopment Dependencies:

• nodemon - Monitors for any changes and automatically restarts the server on .js save.
• prettier-standard - Project linting

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Contributors

• Mike Gullo

  • Email: [email protected]
  • Portfolio
  • GitHub

• Michelle William

  • Email: [email protected]
  • GitHub

• Vincent Shury

  • vshury.com Portfolio
  • GitHub Profile
  • 
  • @VincentShury Twitter

Email any of the contributors listed above for more info about this project