Shopalot

Description

An Amazon-inspired e-commerce platform created for Concordia's SOEN341 class and powered by React, MaterialUI and Firebase

Core Features

• Users should be able to either be customers or vendors
• Vendors should be able to publish their product on the platform and specify categories, prices, pictures and names for them
• Customers should be able to look for a product based on a set of pre-defined categories, a search bar and/or a set of advanced filtering tools
• Customers should be able to checkout, modify or cancel their orders successfully
• Customers should be able to store personal information such as payment data and shipping address for future purchases
• Customers should have the ability to add products to a shopping card that is persistent across sessions

Team

• Abdelmalek Ihdene • AbdelmalekIhdene
• Ali Alp Erdinc • AlpErdinc
• Ru (Joseph) Hong • JosephHong3145
• Maria Alexandra Zana • Alexicazana
• Eve Gagnon • Evgnon
• Jeff Zhang • JeffZhang852
• Armita Zand • Armia471
• Ayman Mansoor • gigihuda2207

Getting Started

1. Install NodeJS from https://nodejs.org/en/download/ using the (.msi) installer and restart your computer if needed.

2. Test your installation with the following commands:

    node -v
    npm -v
   

3. In the command prompt, cd to your working directory, git clone the repository (if you don't have the GIT command-line tool installed, you can install it from https://git-scm.com/download/win) and then cd into the repository, e.g.

    cd C:\Users\Malek\School\Winter\SOEN341
    git clone https://github.com/AbdelmalekIhdene/shopalot.git
    cd shopalot
   

4. In the working directory, initially run npm install to install all of the dependencies, you should now have a node_modules folder.

5. Finally, run npm start to start the app in development mode and open http://localhost:3000 in your browser to view it.