DRF Ecommerce

DRF E-commerce is a fully functional Clothing Ecommerce Platform made using Django and React.

Characteristic Features

• View and buy clothing products.
• Select from a wide variety of products, different color and sizes options.
• Secure JWT Authentication for user safety and protected routes.
• Cart functionality for saving products, updating their quantities and checking out of the store.
• Searching and Filtering your product searched by categories, prices, etc.
• Pagination feature for better user experience and decreased server load.

Tech Stack Used

• React.js is used for creating the UI.
  • React's Context API is used for managing complex state.
• Django is used for the backend.
  • Django Rest Framework is used for setting up API endpoints.
• SQLite DB is used that comes bundled by default in the Django app.
• React Router Dom is used for declarative routing in the browser.
• Simple JWT provides a JSON Web Token authentication backend for the Django REST Framework.
• Pillow library is used for extensive file support and image processing tasks.
• Localstorage used for storing user info like access tokens and session data in the browser storage.

Prototype

Product List View

Pagination

Product Detail View

Product Added to Cart

Cart View

What more can be done?

This project is far from perfect. Many more things can be done in order to make the user experience and the overall functioning of the product. These are some of the features that I believe could be added in the future:

• A product recommender system, that provides each user personalized recommendations according to their product searches.
• Mechanism for storing user tokens in cookies, as Localstorage is prone to XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) attacks.
• Integrating a NoSQL database(eg. MongoDB) for more flexibility in product detail fields.

How to setup on a local machine?

To setup this projct on a local machine:

• Fork this repository.

• Clone the repository using simple zip download or use the command

      git clone https://github.com/{Your-Username}/Movie-Recommendation-System
  

• Create a virtual environment for the project

      pip install virtualenv
      for windows: virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 env_name
      for linux(ubuntu): virtualenv env_name
      
  

• Activate the Virtual environment

     source env_name/bin/activate
  

  Once the virtual environment is activated, the name of your virtual environment will appear on left side of terminal. This will let you know that the virtual environment is currently active.

• Install all the dependencies

     pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• To start the the developement server, run the command

      cd ./backend
      python manage.py runserver
  

• Installing the dependencies for frontend client

      cd ./client
      npm install
  

• For viewing the app

      npm start
  

  Now at localhost:3000, you should see the app successfully running.