Mern Stack E-Commerce Project: Part 1: Backend Only [2023]

Step-by-Step Guide to Building Full-Featured E-commerce APIs with MERN Stack

What you'll learn

Payment integration using Stripe

API Documentation & Deployment

Payment webHook handling

Pagination and filtering techniques

Order statistics and analysis

Admin process for managing orders

Implementing categories and product management

Order management system

Implementing user authentication and authorization

Requirements

Basics of NodeJS

Basics of Javascript (ES6)

Description

This  course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of building and deploying a full-featured API. Throughout the course, students will learn about integrating Stripe for payment processing, pagination and filtering techniques, order statistics and analysis, admin process for managing orders, implementing categories and product management, order management system, building and connecting to the database, implementing user authentication and authorization.The course begins with an introduction to NodeJS and the basics of building an API. Students will learn how to set up a development environment, create and test API endpoints, and connect to a database. As the course progresses, students will learn about integrating Stripe for payment processing, handling webhooks, pagination and filtering techniques and order statistics and analysis.Students will also learn about the admin process for managing orders, implementing categories and product management, and order management system. Throughout the course, students will work on real-world projects, giving them hands-on experience and a solid foundation for building and maintaining APIs.The course also covers best practices for building APIs, including security, performance, and scalability. By the end of the course, students will have a strong understanding of building, testing and deploying APIs, and the skills to take on their next project.This course is suitable for developers who want to learn about building and deploying APIs, students who are new to web development and want to learn about building and deploying APIs, developers who want to learn about integrating Stripe for payment processing, engineers who are interested in learning about building e-commerce systems, and individuals who want to learn about building and deploying a full-featured API.Our experienced instructors will be available to provide guidance and support throughout the course. We encourage active participation in class discussions, asking questions and sharing knowledge with fellow students. This course is designed to provide a solid foundation for building APIs and is suitable for anyone who wants to learn more about back-end web development.

Overview

Section 1: FINAL PROJECT DEMO

Lecture 1 Customers Functionalities DEMO

Lecture 2 Admins Functionalities DEMO

Lecture 3 Project Live Preview

Section 2: MUST READ - IMPORTANT !!!

Lecture 4 How To Take This Course

Lecture 5 Complete Project Source Code

Section 3: START HERE

Lecture 6 Project Features

Lecture 7 Course Paths

Lecture 8 How To Get Help When You Stuck

Lecture 9 Am sorry for my voice

Lecture 10 Folder Structure

Lecture 11 Requirement For This Course

Lecture 12 Advanced Server Setup

Lecture 13 Project Data Modeling Logic

Section 4: USER AUTHENTICATION

Lecture 14 User Data Model

Lecture 15 Connect To MongoDB Database

Lecture 16 MongoDB Connection String and Environment Variables

Lecture 17 MongoDB in VSCODE

Lecture 18 User Registration Controller Setup

Lecture 19 User Registration Controller

Lecture 20 Hash User Password

Lecture 21 User Login Controller

Lecture 22 Error Handling

Lecture 23 Not Found Route Handler

Lecture 24 How Authentication Works

Lecture 25 Mongoose Warning Fixed

Section 5: USER AUTHORISATION & MIDDLEWARES

Lecture 26 Generate Token For Login User

Lecture 27 Dummy Profile Controller

Lecture 28 Get Token from Header

Lecture 29 Verify Generated Token

Lecture 30 IsLogin Middleware

Section 6: PRODUCTS PAGINATION, FILTERING CONTROLLER

Lecture 31 Product Data Model

Lecture 32 Create Product Controller

Lecture 33 Fetching All Products

Lecture 34 Environments In Postman

Lecture 35 Filter Products By Name

Lecture 36 Filter Products By Colors , Brands And Sizes

Lecture 37 Filter Products By Price Range

Lecture 38 Product Pagination

Lecture 39 Pagination Results

Lecture 40 Fetching Single Product

Lecture 41 Update Product

Lecture 42 Delete Product

Section 7: PRODUCT CATEGORIES CONTROLLER

Lecture 43 Create Categories

Lecture 44 Single, Update, Delete Categories Controller

Lecture 45 Associate Product To Category

Lecture 46 Products Brands CRUD Controller

Lecture 47 Associate Products To Brand Category

Lecture 48 Products Colors CRUD Categories Controller

Lecture 49 Color Model Modified

Section 8: PRODUCT REVIEWS CONTROLLER

Lecture 50 Reviews Model

Lecture 51 Create Review Controller

Lecture 52 Avoid Duplication Of Reviews

Lecture 53 Calculate Average Rating

Section 9: PRODUCT ORDER PROCESSING

Lecture 54 Order Placement Process

Lecture 55 Order Model

Lecture 56 Dummy Order Controller

Lecture 57 Order Placement Steps

Lecture 58 Order Placement Part 1

Lecture 59 Order Placement Part 2

Lecture 60 Update User Shipping Address

Section 10: PAYMENT INTEGRATION (STRIPE)

Lecture 61 Stripe Overview And Installation

Lecture 62 Stripe Payment Controller

Lecture 63 Place Order With Payment

Section 11: STRIPE PAYMENT WEBHOOK

Lecture 64 WebHook Explained

Lecture 65 Stripe WebHook Integration

Lecture 66 WebHook Error Fixed

Lecture 67 Update Order With Stripe WebHook

Lecture 68 Update Order with Stripe WebHook Error Fixed

Lecture 69 Fetch All Orders

Lecture 70 Fetch Single Order

Lecture 71 Admin Processing Order

Lecture 72 Populate User Orders

Lecture 73 Testing Placement Of Order

Section 12: PRODUCT COUPONS INTEGRATION

Lecture 74 How Coupon Works With It's Model

Lecture 75 Create Coupon Code

Lecture 76 Coupons Validations

Lecture 77 Fetch All Coupons With Days Left

Lecture 78 Applying Coupon To Order

Lecture 79 Single, Delete, Update Coupon Controller

Section 13: PRODUCTS IMAGES UPLOAD

Lecture 80 Cloudinary Keys and Multer Installation

Lecture 81 Upload Images to Cloudinary

Lecture 82 Create Product With Images

Lecture 83 Create Category With Image

Section 14: ORDER SUMMARY STATISTICS

Lecture 84 Calculate Total Sum Of Orders

Lecture 85 Average, Minimum and Maximum Order

Lecture 86 Get Todays Sales

Lecture 87 IsAdmin Middleware

Section 15: NEW UPDATE: DEPLOYMENT & API DOCUMENTATION

Lecture 88 Push To Github

Lecture 89 Deploying To Render

Lecture 90 API Documentation Preparation In Postman

Lecture 91 Publish API Documentation Using Postman

Section 16: CONGRATULATIONS

Lecture 92 Great Achievement

Section 17: WHAT NEXT ?

Lecture 93 What Next?

Developers who want to learn about building APIs,Students who are new to web development and want to learn about building APIs,Developers who want to learn about integrating Stripe for payment processing,Engineers who are interested in learning about building e-commerce systems,Individuals who want to learn about building and deploying a full-featured API,Anyone who wants to learn more about building and working with APIs.