This project is a full-stack e-commerce platform designed to provide a modern and efficient online shopping experience. Built with a clear separation between backend and frontend, the system offers rich functionality for both users and administrators.
Key Features:
- Product Management: Dynamic product catalog with support for categories, tags, search, and filtering. Admins can manage product details, stock, and images.
- Authentication & User Roles: Secure registration and login system for customers and administrators, using Laravel Sanctum for API authentication and Spatie/laravel-permission for role management (e.g., customer and admin).
- Shopping Cart: Intuitive shopping cart functionality, allowing users to add, update quantities, and remove items.
- Order Processing: Order flow including shipping address selection and payment method (basic payment system in place). Users can view their order history.
- Admin Dashboard: Dedicated interface for administrators to manage products, categories, tags, and monitor store activity. (Currently displays category, tag, and product data).
- Wishlist: Users can save products they are interested in to a wishlist.
Application Screenshots
Technologies Used:
Backend (API):
- Framework: Laravel (PHP)
- API Design: RESTful API
- Authentication: Laravel Sanctum
- Database: MySQL / MariaDB
- Role & Permission Management: Spatie/laravel-permission
- Other: Data seeders for development and testing.
Frontend:
- Framework: Next.js (React)
- Language: TypeScript
- Styling: Tailwind CSS
- UI Components: Shadcn/UI
- State Management & API Calls: React Hooks (useState, useEffect), Axios (via service layer)
- Icons: Lucide Icons
Project Objective:
To develop a scalable and manageable e-commerce application that provides an excellent user experience by leveraging modern backend and frontend technologies. This project demonstrates the ability to build complex systems with a microservice-ready (API-first) architecture.