A CRUD API and Front end for a online store (with MERN Stack)

This project can be used as a boiler plate for building a MongoDB-Express-React-Node stack application.

Live demo

https://frozen-lake-54898.herokuapp.com/

Features:

• CRUD operations for items, subject to user authorization
• User registration and verification by email
• User authentication with Facebook, Oauth
• Uploading an image of the item

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• NodeJS, NPM (https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm)
• A MongoDB server, local or remote. Example: mLab (https://mlab.com/)
• A cloudinary account (https://cloudinary.com/)
• A Heroku free tier plan - optional

Installing

• Clone the repo and check out the code
• Run

  $ npm install 
  $ cd client && npm install
  

• Set following environment variables in a .env file in the root directory

  #jwt secret
  JWT_SECRET = <some string> ex: 'myJWTSecret'
  
  #fb app credentials, needs to be created at https://developers.facebook.com/apps
  CLIENT_ID = <Facebook app client ID for your app> 
  CLIENT_SECRET = <Facebook app client secret for your app>
  
  #email credentials
  MAIL_USER = <e-mail address, from which you will be sending the account verification emails to new users> ex:"support@yourstoreapp.com"
  MAIL_PASSWORD = <e-mail password for the above account> 
  
  #cloudinary credentials, needs to be created at https://cloudinary.com/
  CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET = <cloudinary API secret for your app>
  CLOUDINARY_API_KEY =  <cloudinary API key for your app>
  CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME = <cloudinary cloud name>
  
  #Database server connection URI. If you are using mLab, this needs to be created at https://mlab.com/, and would look like the following:
  MONGODB_URI = 'mongodb://<user_name>:<password>@xxxxx.mlab.com:xxxxx/<db_name>'
  
  

• Run $ npm run dev to start both front end and back end on ports 5000 and 3000 respectively
• Run $ npm run start to start the back end express server on port 5000

Available Routes

User Authentication

• Login with Facebook

Method: post
Type: public
Route:
/api/auth/facebook/login

• Register new user with email

Method: post
Type: public
Route:
/api/auth/register

• Login user with email

Method: post
Type: public
Route:
/api/auth/login

• Verify email address

Method: get
Type: public
Route:
/api/auth/verify/<your token>

• Get profile information

Method: get
Type: private
Route:
/api/auth/me

User Information

• Get all users

Method: get
Type: public
Route:
/api/users/

• Get a specific user with user ID

Method: get
Type: public
Route:
/api/users/<user ID>

Items

• Create new item

Method: post
Type: private
Route:
/api/items/

• Get single item with item ID

Method: get
Type: public
Route:
/api/items/<item ID>

• Get all available items

Method: get
Type: public
Route:
/api/items/

• Delete an item with item ID

Method: delete
Type: private
Route:
/api/items/<item ID>

• Update an item with item ID

Method: put
Type: private
Route:
/api/items/<item ID>

Running the tests

Currently No tests are available.

Deployment

To deploy on Heroku, create an account and set up environment variables. Then run $ git push heroku master Preview

Contributing

Please create an issue and start working a feature/ bug you prefer 🚀.

License

This project is licensed under ISC.