• Secure Authentication: Utilizes JWT for token-based authentication ensuring secure access to user accounts.
• User Profile and Account Management: Users can manage their profiles and accounts conveniently through the platform.
• Cart and Wishlist Management: Users can add items to their cart for easy checkout and manage their wishlist for future purchases.
• Review and Rating System: Gather feedback from users through a review and rating system.
• Payment Interface: Secure online transactions facilitated through Razorpay, ensuring the safety of user payments.
• Admin Dashboard: Manage the ecommerce platform efficiently with an intuitive admin dashboard. Dynamic content rendering with HTML and Handlebars for enhanced usability.

Main web-frameworks and libraries:

• Node.js: Server-side JavaScript execution environment to produce dynamic web pages and service requests.
• Express.js: The de facto standard web application framework for Node.js to build web applications including this one.
• MongoDB(& mongoose.js): NoSQL database, which serves as the database for this tech stack, for storing and retrieving data(CRUD opreations).
• Handlebars.js(& Bootstrap): Templating engine to produce client-side generated dynamic web pages, used to separate UI(view) from logic(model and controller)
• Payment integration: Razorpay
• Sweet Alert, Session & Validation
• JWT tocken based Authentication
• BCrypt Hashing

CraftX is successfully hosted on render You can access the live site https://craftx.onrender.com

1. Cloning the repository

   git clone https://github.com/amarnath-dev/craftX.git
   

2. navigate to the cloned directory & install dependancies

   cd craftX
   npm install
   

3. set up the env file by refering the .examle.env

4. Start Node.js server using npm, the server starts processing request at http://localhost:3000

   npm run dev