e-Commerce project

we are making a full-stack ecommerce project and document the whole process not as a tutorial and as dev who want to make a full stack system that maybe not very scaleable but must be functional at a small scale.

prerequisite :→

so first let’s start the project with the :→

0» Folder structure :→

a» making file and folder (higher level):→

make a empty folder in the desktop and give the name u wanna give :→ here is mine

in this there will be two sections overall to mange two different sections:→

1»server (handle backend / server part of the app)

2»Front-end (handle client part of the application )

1»making the setup :→

a» Setting UP the backend server and DB:→

i» making packages.json :→

 npm init -y

b>installing despondency:→

npm i dotenv mongoose express

npm i -d nodemon

if your package.json seems like this you aree good to go.

{
  "name": "server",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "description": "",
  "dependencies": {
    "dotenv": "^16.4.7",
    "express": "^5.1.0",
    "mongoose": "^8.13.1"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "nodemon": "^3.1.9"
  }
}

point to remember :→

a» make sure to change the type :→

place the “test script” and this 2 script this will help to run the code.

"name": "server",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "type": "module", // you and this part in package.json

b» change this the scripts:→

 "scripts": {
    "start": "node index.js",
    "dev":"nodemon index.js"
  },

2»making the server with express :→