ecommerce_website

Final project for Beetroot Academy's Python course

Description

This is an ecommerce website for a fictional company.

Technologies used:

• Django
• Django REST Framework
• Docker and Docker Compose
• PostgreSQL with Adminer
• Celery with Redis as message broker
• Redis as cache
• Nginx as reverse proxy
• Gunicorn as WSGI server
• Elasticsearch for real-time product search
• AWS EC2 instance
• Godaddy domain
• TLS certificate from Cloudflare
• Python
• AJAX for async requests to the server and Elasticsearch
• HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JS

Some of the features:

• User registration and login
• Product catalog with filtering and sorting
• Real-time product search
• Interactive shopping cart and checkout
• Product reviews
• Async email sending with Celery (using Gmail SMTP)
• Order history
• Admin panel
• REST API using Django REST Framework

Project is deployed on AWS EC2 and can be accessed at https://lexglu.online

Demo

Installation

1. Clone the repository to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/LexGlu/ecommerce_website.git

2. cd into the project directory
3. Install Docker and Docker Compose
4. Create a .env file in the project directory and add the following variables:

SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key
DEBUG=<0 or 1>
ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost,your_domain

#postgres
POSTGRES_ENGINE=django.db.backends.postgresql
POSTGRES_DATABASE=your_postgres_database
POSTGRES_USER=your_postgres_user
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=your_postgres_password
POSTGRES_HOST=name_of_postgres_service
POSTGRES_PORT=5432

#redis as celery's message broker
CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis:6379/<db_number_0>
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/<db_number_0>

#email sending with celery and gmail smtp
EMAIL_HOST_USER=your_email
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=your_email_password

#redis as cache
REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/<db_number_1>

#elasticsearch
ELASTICSEARCH_URL=elasticsearch:9200

4. Run docker-compose up -d in the project directory
5. Go to http://localhost