A few issues with the Cart about proshop_mern HOT 7 CLOSED

Yeah, I see what you mean. We initially wanted people to be able to add to cart without being logged in. Keep in mind, this is a course project. I would have to re-do a lot of the course to implement.

I may add a section at the end to do this. Then I will update the repo.

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There's also an issue with the cart and deleting items, in lecture 35 I believe. If the user goes to the cart via add item to cart, the item id and quantity are included in the url. However, if the user then deletes the item from the cart, state and localStorage are adjusted correctly, but if the user then refreshes the page, the item is then re-added to the cart because the url still has the item id and quantity included in it. I'd love to be able to fix this but I don't know where to begin.

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I 100% agree on this one!

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The easiest thing to do would be add CART_RESET that fires when someone logs out or pays for an order.

The harder thing to do would be to have a cart collection in the DB that contains the items and is linked to a user. This is what I am working on now as I want to be able to do abandoned cart emails in the end,

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yea was thinking the same, maybe the user scheme should reference a cart items schema...

so you would have a user object with an array of cart items... quite possibly the solution..

and yes, should clear the cart state when logout or paid

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@adamwinzdesign My solution is not using path like cart/:id?qty=1 and not invoking dispatch in CartScreen, instead only use /cart and invoke dispatch in the Add to Cart button's onClick handler in the ProductDetailsScreen.
Here is my code for reference: link

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Just create an action CART_RESET and dispatch right after user log out

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