BookStore web application

An ecommerce platform to buy and sell books. Watch the demo of the project at [https://youtu.be/XWo0PKRS6GU]

Features 

-User Authentication [login, register]

-View and Search Books

-Cart Management

-Order creation

-Create,Edit,Delete Book Listings

JWT Authentication using SimpleJWT package

Documentation made using Swagger docs

Frontend made with React, React-Bootstrap, and Vite.

Project setup

Pre requisites:

• Python
• PostgreSQL
• Node js

1. Create a folder and clone the repo

 git clone https://github.com/Nandagopalvs25/BookStore

3. Install Virtual env to create a python virtual environment

   cd Bookstore
   pip install virtualenv
   python<version> -m venv <virtual-environment-name>
   env/Scripts/activate.bat //Activate virtual env In CMD
   env/Scripts/Activate.ps1 //Activate virtual env In Powershel

3. Install dependencies for the api

    pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Create a new PostgreSQL database using createdb or the pgAdmin tool

createdb --username=postgres <db_name>

5. Create a .env file in the backend dir and set the enviornment variables for the database

 DB_NAME=
 DB_USER=
 DB_PWD=
 DB_HOST=
 DB_PORT=

6. Apply migrations

python manage.py migrate

7. Run the server using

python manage.py runserver

The api should be up and runnning

8. Cd into the frontend dir and run

npm install
npm run dev

Click on the link to view the website in the browser.