This is a full stack e-commerce site built using Vite React, Tailwind CSS, Express REST API alongside a MySQL database.

• Fully responsive design
• Paginated product listing page with product counter, category decription, alphabetical filtering (A-Z and Z-A) and price sorting (ascending and descending)
• Individual product pages with product description, add to cart button, quantity selector and related products
• Cart system with local storage
• Add to cart notification
• Fully responsive design
• Lazy loading of images
• Announcement bar at the top of the page
• Static footer containing a set of links

# Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/MatthewBleUK/ecommerce-site.git

# Go into the repository
$ cd ecommerce-site

# Install the front-end dependencies
$ npm install

# Install the back-end dependencies (this is separated for modularity)
$ cd ./src/api
$ npm install

# Create the MySQL database and tables with the products.sql file inside the api directory

# Set up back-end environment file (needs to be inside the api directory)
$ nano .env

PORT=3002
DATABASE_HOST="localhost"
DATABASE_USER="root"
DATABASE_PASSWORD=""
DATABASE_NAME="ecommerce"
DATABASE_CONNECTION_LIMIT=10

# Run the app
$ cd ../../
$ npm start

This project is released under the GNU General Public License v3.