Rare Form Roasting Co. is a proof-of-concept e-commerce website for my personal coffee roasting company.

Tech Stack

• Front-end: React.js, styled with some heavily-modified Reactstrap
• APIs & database interfacing: C#/.NET (ASP.NET Core), Entity Framework Core
• Database: PostgreSQL

Developed using VSCode, GitHub, Create React App, and Postman API.

Demonstration

View a quick demonstration of Rare Form Roasting Co. here:

Some fun features:

• Custom-built backend with ASP.NET Core MVC controllers for API endpoints, securely connected to a PostgreSQL database for persistent storage
• UI login functionality integrated via ASP.NET Core Identity, with different views and privileges available depending on the logged-in user's role
• Full CRUD operations on multiple fronts: customer users can customize and place orders, admin users can manage orders and inventory
• Development managed using agile methodology; created an ERD, wireframe, and user stories; planned sprints; managed tasks via GitHub Issue Tracker & Projects tool
• A well-thought-through UI and vibe: friendly for multiple viewports; custom graphic design and branding

Wireframe

ERD

Install

• In your terminal, run git clone + this repo's SSH while in your target directory.
• cd into the directory.

Client front-end

• Ensure you have Node.js and npm installed.
• navigate to client folder: cd client
• install dependencies: npm install

Back-end

• Ensure you have PostgreSQL and .NET installed.
• cd to the main project directory
• run dotnet restore to install dependencies
• run dotnet user-secrets init to initialize user secrets
• run the following, replacing YOURPASSWORDHERE with your PostgreSQL password. This will save the connection string to user secrets.
  • dotnet user-secrets set RareFormRoastingDbConnectionString "Host=localhost;Port=5432;Username=postgres;Password=YOURPASSWORDHERE>;Database=RareFormRoasting"
• create the database migration: dotnet ef migrations add InitialCreate
• create the database: dotnet ef database update

Run the app

• In one terminal instance and while in the main project directory, run dotnet run (or, start the C# debugger in VSCode)
• In another terminal instance and while in the client directory, run npm start
• Admin user's login info:
  • david@rareformroasting.comx
  • roastingpassword