VideoShopper

VideoShopper is a complete single-page e-commerce site that uses a single Express server in Node to serve up both the frontend resources and the database data. It includes Sequelize database models that are currently set up to work with a Postgres SQL server running on the default port of localhost:5432. It uses React and Redux (and React-Redux) on the front-end, all the JavaScript for which is bundled using Webpack.

The VideoShopper site includes the following views:

• A home view with a welcome banner and product category cards
• A products view displaying animated products cards that can be sorted by category.
• A product view that offers details and reviews for a specific product.
• An admin panel that displays order information (located at '/admin' , log in as 'god@example.com' with the password '1234' to take a look)
• A cart view that provides the user with a form to place an order
• A cart implemented in window.localStorage that works regardless of sign-in/registration and persists after the window has closed.

To get the codebase:

• git clone https://github.com/ahookom/videoShopper.git

Note: VideoShopper currently requires node >= 6.7.0 and < 8.0.0

To start it up:

Short and sweet:

npm install
npm run dev

The dev script sets NODE_ENV to "development", runs the build script in watch mode, and starts the server with nodemon. Build vs server logs are separated by a prefix. If you prefer to run the server and build processes separately, you can instead do:

npm run start-dev

npm run build-dev

In two separate terminals.

You can also use the vanilla npm start, but it is meant for production.

What's in the box

/app has the React/Redux setup. main.jsx is the entry point.

/db has Sequelize models and database setup. It'll create the database for you if it doesn't exist, assuming you have postgres already installed and running.

/server has the Express server and routes. start.js is the entry point.

/bin has a few scripts, including a heroku deployment script.

/public is where you'll find various front-end resources

Quick Heroku deployment

1. Set up the Heroku command line tools and install Yarn if you haven't already (npm install -g yarn)
2. heroku login
3. Add a git remote for heroku:

• If you're creating a new app...

  1. heroku create or heroku create your-app-name if you have a name in mind.
  2. heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev to add postgres
  3. npm run deploy-heroku. This will create a new branch and compile and commit your frontend JS to it, then push that branch to Heroku.
  4. heroku run npm run seed to seed the database

• If you already have a Heroku app...

  1. heroku git:remote your-app-name You'll need to be a collaborator on the app.

Afterwards,

• To deploy: npm run deploy-heroku
• To re-seed: heroku run npm run seed