Group Buy (Backend)

*This is the Backend repo! Frontend Repo: https://github.com/jcleow/group-buy-frontend

Web-app that consolidates mass pre-orders amongst buyers and listers(sellers) to unlock volume discounts

Deployment

Heroku: https://www.groupbuy.site/

Video Demonstration of Features (click on picture)

Features

1. Users can create and edit new listings, as well as enter into group purchases in other users' listings
2. A structured and user-friendly view of a user's purchases and listings to easily track their past purchases and the performances of their listings.
3. Analytics for listers to track their progress of their campaigns/listings.

Technical Features

1. More indepth experience with advanced React Hooks (i.e useContext() and useReducer()) to more efficiently manage states across (nested) components
2. Integration of AWS S3 with Multer
3. Usage of alias in database models to reflect a user being a buyer and a lister(seller)

Technologies Used

Frontend: React, CSS, Bootstrap Backend: PostgresQL, Sequeliz, Express External libraries used: React-Vis (Charting) React-Bootstrap-Table-Next, AWS-S3, Multer

Further Discussions and Reflections

Portfolio Pages:

Jeremy: http://bit.ly/jeremyl91

Veena: https://veena-s.github.io/Portfolio/groupbuy.html

Jit Corn: https://jcleow.github.io/portfolio/groupBuy.html

How to run locally

Frontend Server : npm start Backend Server: nodemon index.mjs