Book Store Application

About

This is a Book Store Application made using the MERN stack, which essentially stands for :

• MongoDB -> a NoSQL database,
• Express.js and Node.js -> in the backend, and
• React.js -> in the frontend.
• npm -> package manager.

Author

Dipto Bhattacharjee

Project Version

1.0.0

Built With

• MongoDB
• Express.js
• Node.js (version=20.4.0)
• React.js (version=18.2.0)
• npm (version=9.8.0)

Getting Started

In order to run this application the following steps must be performed :-

1. Prerequisites

Make sure your system has the npm package manager of version >= 9.8.0.

2. Dependencies Resolving

In the terminal, navigate to the frontend and backend directory respectively, then run the following command npm install or npm i, in each of the directories. In each of the directories, package.json file is present which contains the data required to build the project, it contains the meta data, dependencies, requirements and such stuffs required to build the project. The command npm install or npm i installs the dependencies required to build the project.

3. Running the services

In the terminal, navigate to the frontend and execute the command npm run build this will start the frontend service at the port 5173 and then go the backend directory and run the following command npm run start to get the backend service started on port 5500. Both the services will run in the localhost of the system. Then open http://localhost:5173/ or http://127.0.0.1:5713/ in your browser to get started.

4. Terminating the services

In the terminal, navigate to the tab/window where currently the commands are executing, there click CTRL-C to terminate the current process, this will stop the server. This has to be done in both the frontend and backend directories.

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