A powerful API for managing an e-commerce platform.

• Introduction
• Features
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
  • Configuration
• Usage
• API Documentation
• Deployment
• Monitoring and Management
• Contributing
• License

The E-Commerce API is a feature-rich backend application that provides a comprehensive set of APIs for managing an e-commerce platform. It enables you to handle product management, user authentication, order processing, reviews, payments, and more.

• User authentication and authorization
• Product management (creation, retrieval, update, deletion)
• Order processing (creation, retrieval, update, deletion)
• Review management (creation, retrieval)
• Payment processing integration
• Error handling middleware
• Logging middleware

Follow these steps to set up and run the E-Commerce API locally.

• Node.js (v14 or higher)
• MongoDB database

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/your-username/e-commerce-api.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

cd e-commerce-api

3. Install dependencies:

npm install

1. Create a .env file in the project root directory.
2. Add the following environment variables to the .env file and set their respective values:

PORT=5000
MONGODB_URI=your-mongodb-uri
API_KEY=your-api-key

Replace your-mongodb-uri with the MongoDB connection URI and your-api-key with a secret key for API authentication.

To start the API server, run the following command:

npm start

The API will be accessible at http://localhost:5000.

The API documentation is available at API Documentation. It provides detailed information on available endpoints, request/response formats, and authentication requirements.

To deploy the E-Commerce API to a production environment, follow these steps:

1. Set up a production-ready MongoDB database.
2. Configure the environment variables for the production environment.
3. Use a process manager like PM2 or systemd to manage the Node.js process and ensure high availability.

For process monitoring and management, we recommend using PM2. Follow these steps to set up PM2:

1. Install PM2 globally:

npm install pm2 -g

2. Start the API server using PM2:

pm2 start npm -- start

PM2 will automatically handle process monitoring, automatic restarts, and log management.

We welcome contributions from the community. To contribute to the E-Commerce API, please follow the guidelines outlined in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.