• An E-Commerce Web Application developed using Node.js, Express, MongoDB and Handlebars templating engine, modelled on MVC architecture pattern to separate data-models from business logic(controllers) and views.
• Website Hosted at: https://shoppingcart-deploy.herokuapp.com/ (hosted using Heroku Platform)
• Features: Browse Products added by Different Users, Signup/Login to Add Products to Cart or Order Products & Add or Edit your Own Products.

Main web-frameworks and libraries:

• Node.js: Server-side JavaScript execution environment to produce dynamic web pages and service requests.
• Express.js: The de facto standard web application framework for Node.js to build web applications including this one.
• MongoDB(& mongoose.js): NoSQL database, which serves as the database for this tech stack, for storing and retrieving data(CRUD opreations).
• Handlebars.js(& Bootstrap): Templating engine to produce client-side generated dynamic web pages, used to separate UI(view) from logic(model and controller)
• Express Messages, Session, Connect Flash & Validation
• Passport.js Authentication
• BCrypt Hashing

Download and Install node.js and npm. Clone the repository & Install the dependencies using command-line.

git clone https://github.com/knightwayne/Ecommerce-Website.git
npm install

Start Node.js server using npm, the server starts processing request at http://localhost:3000 .

npm start

Find the process ID and kill the process to stop the node server.

ps aux | grep node
kill -9 PROCESS_ID

• Image URL shows absolute path(instead of relative path) when product is edited by admin.
• Invoice Not Generated properly
• Authentication & Authorization
• Handling Payments with Stripe.js or other similar framework