Matthew Sherohman's eCommerce Application

--by Matthew Sherohman--

Introduction

This application is intended to be an implementation of my skills that is safe for deployment on a real server

Hopefully I will log all steps through the process of making this application.

Guide

1. Make a project vision

ProjectVision

To begin, I created Project Vision. This helps a lot for getting a better idea of what you want to do and the roadblocks you may face when developing.

This project will...

• Contain security functionality
• Run two separate backends
• Contain Authentication & Authorization functionality
• Contain product functionality
• Contain order functionality
• Look nice, hopefully

The Two Backends

This project will contain three front end applications and 4 backend applications;

Frontend

• User frontend
• Group frontend
• Admin Frontend

Backend

• User Backend
• Group Backend
• Admin Backend
• Product Backend
• Authentication & Authorization Backend

One to provide information for users/customers, the second to provide functionality to groups/brands, the third to provide useful functionality to admins and managers.

The User Stack

The User Stack will...

• Allow an unauthenticated user to sign up or in
• Allow an authenticated user to sign out
• Allow an authenticated user to read and write products to their order
• Allow a user to search all products
• Allow a user to view popular products, new products, and clearance products
• Prompt an unauthenticated user to sign up when they attempt to add an item to their cart
• Allow an authenticated user to checkout an order and use some payment processing method (stripe?)
• Allow an authenticated user to view all of a groups/brands products
• Allow an authenticated user to create an issue-report

The Group Stack

The Group Stack will...

• Allow an unauthenticated vendor to do nothing
• Allow an authenticated vendor to read and write products to their assigned group
• Allow an authenticated vendor to view their group's sales
• Allow an authenticated vendor to exchange inventory with the user stack's distributor
• Allow an authenticated vendor to log and inventory exchange
• Allow an authenticated vendor to create an issue-report

The Admin Stack

• Allow an authenticated group-admin to read/write groups
• Allow an authenticated user-admin to read/write users and their logs
• Allow an authenticated product-admin to read/write products
• Allow an authenticated user-manager to read/write users with USER roles
• Allow an authenticated product-manager to report products
• Allow an authenticated group-manager to report groups