Online Bookstore

An elaborate online bookstore. Built by David Liao and Eric Pham. (Work in progress!)

Features

(When complete,) Users are able to:

Search for books
Add to cart
Sign in
Place order
Track status

Owners are able to:

Add/remove/edit books
Add/remove/edit publishers
View sales statistics and KPIs

Publishers are able to:

Receive some amount of commission for his/her published books
Receive an email when stock drops below some amount

Tech Stack

Application

React app
Next.js

Deployment (AWS)

S3 or EC2: frontend
API Gateway/Lambda: serverless backend
RDS for PostgreSQL w/ Read Replica: database
CloudFront: CDN for faster loading
ElastiCache Redis: server-side session cache for shopping carts
WAF: prevent DDoS
SQS between API Gateway and Lambda: request buffer
Cognito: user authentication
SNS: emailing publishers for reorder

Database Design

See README in the sql folder

Instruction for running

Clone this repo (or download it)
Run the following commands in the terminal (when in the directory of the app):
npm install
npm run dev