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📃 Description

• A fully-featured Node.js console application simulating a online retail shopping experience like that of Amazon.
• There is an inventory of miscellaneous items stored in MySQL database.
• As it can be seen below, items get pulled and displayed in a tabular format to customers and managers.
• The inventory can be updated and items can be added to and removed from database through command line (console).

🔩 Tools and Technologies

• Languages, libraries, and frameworks: JavaScript
• DB Server: MySQL
• Runtime Environment: Node.js
• Dependencies: inquirer, mysql, table
• Package Manager: npm
• Version control: Git
• Editor: Visual Studio Code
• Operating System: Mac OS

▶️ Deployed Application

• See the application up and running via GitHub Pages directly from its depository.

📺 Demo

• Here see a short demo of this application on my YouTube channel!

🔧 How to Run

In order to run the application on your device, follow the instructions given below:

1. Clone down the application to your local device
2. Install the packages specified in package.json
3. Get your database up and running.
   1. Start MySQL server
      • On Mac: Open Spotlight Search, type in mysql, then choose mysql.prefPane, enter your password, and finally hit Start MySQL Server
   2. Create schema using schema.sql
   3. Add data to your database using seeds.sql
   4. Modify port, user, and password in the corresponding .js to reflect your credential.
4. Open terminal (on mac)
5. There are 2 options:

• If you wish to run the app as a customer and do shopping, then : $ node bamazonCustomer.js
• If you wish to see it as a manager: $ node bamazonManager.js

6. Finally, follow instructions on the console to proceed further.

🔑 Technical Highlights

1. Tabular illustration of data
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