azamsharpschool/HelloMarket

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HelloMarket

NOTE: This project is currently under development.

This repository is part of my course. If you are interested in learning how to build Smart Shop E-Commerce store from scratch then check out my course Full Stack E-Commerce App Development with SwiftUI, Node.js and Postgres.

HelloMarket, a full-stack e-commerce app using SwiftUI, Node.js, and Postgres. Develop key features such as user authentication, product management, order processing, and seamless Stripe integration for payments.

Technologies and Frameworks

SwiftUI
NodeJS (ExpressJS)
Postgres (Database)
Sequelize (ORM)

Setting Up the Backend:

First, make sure that you have Node.js installed. You can install Node.js by following the instructions at nodejs.org.

Once Node.js is installed, navigate to the hello-market-server folder and run:

npm install

This will install all the required packages and dependencies.

Next, you need to set up your database. For HelloMarket, we use a PostgreSQL database. The easiest way to install PostgreSQL on your machine is by using the Postgres App. Once the Postgres App is installed, open it and initialize the database. You may see a few databases already created. Simply double-click on any of them, and it will open the PostgreSQL command line.

From the command line, you can create a new database by running the following command:

CREATE DATABASE hellomarketdb;

Press Enter to execute the command. This will create the hellomarketdb database on your local machine. There are many tools available to visualize the database; I recommend using BeeKeeper Community Edition.

After creating the database, you can go inside the hello-market-server folder and run npm install. This will install all the required packages for your server. Once, all the packages are installed you need to configure the database using the following settings. This should be in config.json file, which resides inside the config folder.

You can use the following configuration to connect BeeKeeper to the database:

"development": {
    "username": "postgres",
    "password": null,
    "database": "hellomarketdb",
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "dialect": "postgres"
}

Next, to create all the required tables you can run sequelize db:migrate from the terminal from inside the hello-market-server folder. This will make sure you have all the tables required for the app.

To run your server, make sure you are inside the hello-market-server folder, then run:

node app.js

Alternatively, if you have Nodemon installed, you can run:

nodemon app.js

Nodemon will restart the server automatically whenever changes are detected.