Overview of My Submission

Shoppable is A Platform to create an online store for your business. Powered by Redis Stack!. You can visit it here

Submission Category:

My category would be Microservice Mavens as this project has 6 decoupled backend microservices and one frontend

Languages/Technologies Used

NodeJS
Angular
Redis Stack (RedisJSON, RedisSearch, Redis Streams)

Demo

Additional Info

Process Flow

• Merchant can register on the platform and create a store
• He can add the items to inventory
• A customer can visit that merchant store
• Customer can purchase items listed by merchant
• Merchant will receive the order and will fulfill it
• Customer will receive notifications regarding the order

Technical Overview

• There are 6 microservices (merchant, inventory, customer, order, update, file-upload)
• All servers are based on NodeJS
• The client is based on Angular and Angular Material
• An nginx is used to route request to various microservices as a reverse proxy
• Redis Stack is integrated with the help of Redis OM and Node Redis NodeJS libraries
• Redis Stack is hosted on Redis Cloud itself
• RedisJSON, RedisSearch and Redis Streams has been used
• RedisJSON is used to store JSON documents for various schema such as Merchant, Customer, Product, Order, etc.
• RedisSearch is used alongside RedisJSON to search through different repositories
• Redis Streams is used for publishing and listening to order updates and send email using Mailjet to the customer regarding the update
• Apart from this, Google Cloud Storage is also used to store images of the products uploaded by the merchant

Architecture

Application Screenshots

Merchant Login

Merchant Dashboard

Merchant Inventory

Merchant Add/Edit Product

Merchant Orders

Store Home

Product Page

Cart

Order Details

Email Notification

Link to Code

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