SETUP_GUIDE.md

📃 SETUP GUIDE

❗ System Requirements

• Git: Version control system.

• Node.js: JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine (Please go with any latest LTS versions)

• Visual Studio Code (or any other code editor).

• Prettier - Code formatter: helps you to format your JavaScript / TypeScript / CSS using Prettier.

📝 Additional Requirements

• Cloudinary: The project uses cloudinary to store user profile and product images. I recommend you creating a cloudinary account (if you don't have on already) and use your own configuration settings.

• Stripe (optional): The project uses stripe as a payment-gateway. If you already have an account, it's awesome. You'll only need this if you are working on both frontend and backend.

🛠 Local Installation and Setup

1. Clone the repo to your local machine.

2. Install the required dependency for server using :

   npm install

3. Create a .env file and copy-paste the contents of .env.sample in it and filling in the configuration keys.

4. Start the dev server using :

   npm start