The_A-Z_Proj (Replica of Amazon)

This project is a replica of the popular e-commerce platform Amazon, built using Node.js, Express.js, EJS, MongoDB, CSS, and HTML. It aims to showcase various functionalities commonly found on e-commerce websites.

Screenshots

Login page

• Welcome to the login page of the website. (which is at /login route)
• You can login using Gmail (that is authentication using google) or using an email and a password (which will be hashed and salted when stored)

Home page

• Welcome to the home page, where you have the option to explore various sections such as BestSellers, Mobiles, Laptops, and Accessories.
• You can utilize the search bar to easily find products throughout the website.
• You can click on each tile to get details about the product.
• You can click logout button to logout from the website.

Product Page

• You can click on add to cart, this will add the current product into a array (called cart).
• Also whenever you visit a product page the current product will get added into an array (called userInterests) automatically to track user interests

Console images

• you can see that user interests are tracked, those objects are info about the products which user searched for..
• You can also see the cart items which user added. Currently this project don't render cart items seperately.

Requirements for this project to setup locally

• You need to install Mongodb to run this project
• Simply head over to this link
• Click on Select package and select preffered platform and click download
• Just simply click next and don't forget to check the box for installing mongodb compass

Setting it up locally (on your device)

• First download this project folder and extract it.

• Now you need to create a .env file or just simply create a file named '.env'

• Now you need 'CLIENT_ID' and 'CLIENT_SECRET' to get them simply head over to this link

• Login with your email, and now you need to fill the details

  • Under User Type click external and then click create
  • Now type App information
    • Type App name
    • Select support email
    • Type Developer contact information
    • You can also fill the optional details too.. it's upto you
    • Click save and continue
  • Now Click save and continue under Scopes and Test Users
  • Now head over to this Link
    • Click on CREATE CREDENTIALS and then on OAuth client ID
    • select application type as Web Application
    • Type your preffered name or let it be "A-Z Project"
    • Under Authorised JavaScript origins add this link http://localhost:3000
    • Under Authorized redirect URIs add this URI http://localhost:3000/auth/google/secrets
    • Click create
    • now copy the Client id and client secret and paste them in .env file
  • The text in .env should be in this following format
    

• Run this following command in your terminal npm i

• Now run node app.js

• Head over to this link

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find any bugs or have feature requests, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

Contact

If you have any questions or suggestions, or need support, feel free to contact me at parshipraneesh8@gmail.com.