E-Commerce Back End

User Story

AS A manager at an internet retail company
I WANT a back end for my e-commerce website that uses the latest technologies
SO THAT my company can compete with other e-commerce companies

Acceptance Criteria

GIVEN a functional Express.js API
WHEN I add my database name, MySQL username, and MySQL password to an environment variable file
THEN I am able to connect to a database using Sequelize
WHEN I enter schema and seed commands
THEN a development database is created and is seeded with test data
WHEN I enter the command to invoke the application
THEN my server is started and the Sequelize models are synced to the MySQL database
WHEN I open API GET routes in Insomnia for categories, products, or tags
THEN the data for each of these routes is displayed in a formatted JSON
WHEN I test API POST, PUT, and DELETE routes in Insomnia
THEN I am able to successfully create, update, and delete data in my database

Description

Modifed the starter code to create an application called E Commerce. Given the starter code of a working Express.js API, code was configured to use Sequelize to interact with a MySQL database.

Code syncs Sequelize models to a MySQL database on the server start, includes column definitions for all four models and model associations, and provides the following GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE routes:

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• License
• Contributing
• Tests
• Questions

Installation

• Check if you have Node.js installed by typing node -v in your command line. If node is not installed, visit the Node.js website to install.
• Next, clone this project repository to your computer.
• Use the command npm i to install dependencies.
• Create a file in the root directory titled .env and include database name and personal MySQL login information:

DB_NAME='YOUR DATABASE NAME'
DB_USER='YOUR USERNAME'
DB_PASSWORD='YOUR PASSWORD'

• Open MySQL with command mysql -u root -p and enter your personal MySQL password.
• Create databse with command source schema.sql. Log out of MySQL with command \q or quit.
• Seed database with command npm run seed.

Usage

Watch a video demonstration of the basic functionality:

• Start server with command npm start.
• Access API routes with Insomnia using the following endpoints:

	CATEGORY	TAG	PRODUCT
GET (ALL), POST(CREATE)	http://localhost:3001/api/categories/	http://localhost:3001/api/tags/	http://localhost:3001/api/products/
GET (BY ID), PUT(UPDATE), DELETE	http://localhost:3001/api/categories/:id	http://localhost:3001/api/tags/:id	http://localhost:3001/api/products/:id

• Make POST and PUT requests with the following JSON body formats:

CATEGORY

{ 
"categoryName": "STRING INPUT" 
}

TAG

{ 
"tagName": "STRING INPUT" 
}

PRODUCT

{ 
"product_name": "STRING INPUT",   
"price": DECIMAL INPUT,   
"stock": INTEGER INPUT,   
"tagIds": INTEGER INPUT
}

License

This project is covered under the MIT licence.
To learn more click on the following link

How to Contribute

Please follow Contributor Covenant Guidelines by clicking on the following link: Contributor Covenant

Tests

Use Insomnia for testing routes

Questions

If you have any questions about this projects, please email me: gubiscom@yahoo.com directly.
Please visit my GitHub Page to view this project. Heroku Page

Credits

Thank you for tips and sugestions from Bootcamp instructors and classmates. I have used https://www.w3schools.com/ and https://www.stackoverflow.com to research information. Codes were based on mini project and some other modules from bootcamp.

I received help from tutor Dru Sanchez as well.

Tables in README created using table-magic by Steve GunTrip (stevecat).