fsharp-ecommerce

A full-stack ecommerce prototype featuring product browsing, cart management, and search. Built with an F#/Giraffe REST API and a React/Redux frontend, backed by MongoDB.

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Backend

• F#
• Giraffe
• MongoDB

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Frontend

• JavaScript
• React
• Redux
• Ant Design

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How to run

Prerequisites: MongoDB, .NET 8 SDK, and Node.js 20.19+ (or 22.12+) with npm.

1. Clone this repo
2. Export the MongoDB environment variable

   export MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/
   

3. Import the product data into MongoDB (openfoodfacts.csv has had the code column changed to _id)

   mongoimport --type tsv --db products -c products --ignoreBlanks --fieldFile=fieldtypes.txt --columnsHaveTypes --drop openfoodfacts.csv
   

4. Start the backend

   cd Backend
   dotnet run
   

5. Start the frontend

   cd Frontend/salt-frontend
   npm install
   npm start