shopsy

A sample shopping cart project to explore different database systems with Node.js

Installation

Clone this repo to your local machine, cd into the directory and use the Node package manager npm to install

npm install

Running Locally

• Install docker on your machine

• Setup Mongodb(Document database)

  1. Pull mogodb docker image using following command

  $docker pull mongo
  
  

  2. Run docker

  $docker run --name mongodb -p 37017:27017 -d mongo
  $docker start mongodb
  
  

  3. Connecting with mongodb database usinga client

  4. Download and install Robo3T

  5. Open Robo3T > Create Connection(use localhost:37017)

• Setup Redis(key-value store)

  1. Pull Redis docker image

  $ docker pull redis
  
  

  2. Run docker image

  $ docker run --name  redis -p 7379:6379 -d redis
  $ docker start redis
  
  

  3. Client setup

  $ sudo npm install -g redis-commander
  
  $ redis-commander --redis-port 7379
  

  Access redis db using url from any browser - http://127.0.0.1:8081

• Setup MySQL(RDMS database)

  1. Pull MySql docker image and run container

  $ docker pull mysql
  $ docker run --name mysql -p 3406:3306 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=mypassword -d mysql 
  $ docker start mysql
  

  2. MySql Client setup

  Install MySql workbench

Once installed open workbench and create a connection to hostname 127.0.0.1:3406 enter root password(mypassword) provided earlier and create a schema called 'shopsy'.

Start Shopsy application. Happy learning...

$ npm start