A fullstack e-commerce platform created for my mother to grow her home flower business!
Created to have a simple and fast checkout experience for users/customers. In addition, having an admin portal that allows my mother to manage the items in the shop, manage pickup and online orders, and get in contact with customers.
- Planning to restructure both frontend and backend file structures to allow for easier readability.
- Design changes to the shop.
| Technology | Description |
|---|---|
| Angular2 | Frontend framework |
| TailwindCSS | CSS Framework |
| ExpressJS | Backend web framework |
| Nodemailer | Node email module |
| NGINX | Web serving/load balancer |
| PayPal API | Payment Processing API |
| Google Cloud Storage | File/Image hosting |
| Firebase RTDB | Cloud Hosted Database |
| Codebase | Description |
|---|---|
| frontend | Angular2 frontend |
| backend | ExpressJS API |
- File structure is extremely important in organizing code
- The more general purpose functions are, the better
- I should learn server-side rendering...
- Firebase Realtime Database is great for these smaller projects as it is quick and easy to implement. But I find the JSON tree structure annoying at points.
- Route names should be general, don't include the http request type in the name!
- VSCode >>>>
I thought creating a personal e-commerce platform would be a good way to learn more about web development. I also saw benefits to designing the website myself rather than using premade templates offered by websites such as Shopify.
Because Angular is cool?