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🛒 InkSpire – Full Stack E-commerce Platform

Live Demo: https://inkspire-steel.vercel.app

InkSpire is a powerful, fully responsive full-stack e-commerce web application built using modern technologies. It includes a customer-facing storefront and a robust admin dashboard for managing products, users, orders, and more. This platform supports Stripe payment integration and follows scalable coding principles such as the MVC pattern on the backend.

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🚀 Features

👥 User-Facing (Frontend)

• 🛍️ Browse products by categories, brands, and attributes
• 🔍 Real-time search and filter functionality
• 🧾 Product detail pages with rich descriptions and attributes
• 🛒 Add to cart, wishlist, and purchase functionality
• 💳 Stripe payment gateway integration
• 🚚 Order tracking system
• 🔐 JWT-based user authentication & registration
• 📧 Subscribe to newsletters
• 📞 Contact form to reach admin

🛠 Admin Dashboard

• 📊 Dashboard Summary: Sales, users, orders
• 👤 User management (view, update, delete)
• 📦 Product management (create, update, delete)
• 🏷️ Category, Brand, Attribute management
• 📸 Slider/banner management
• 📨 Contact message and subscriber management
• 📦 Order management (view, update status)
• 🧾 Dynamic data handling with Ant Design tables & Material Tailwind components

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📧 Auto Email Integration ✅ Features User verification email sent after login

Order confirmation email sent after successful payment

Uses Nodemailer with SMTP (e.g., Gmail, Mailtrap, or custom SMTP provider)

Custom email templates

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🧑‍💻 Tech Stack

Frontend

• React.js
• Redux Toolkit
• Tailwind CSS
• Ant Design + Material Tailwind
• Axios for API requests
• JWT Authentication

Backend

• Node.js
• Express.js
• MongoDB
• Prisma ORM
• MVC Architecture
• Stripe API for payment integration
• CORS, Helmet, dotenv for security and environment management

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📁 Project Structure

📦inkspire
 ┣ 📂client             // React frontend
 ┃ ┣ 📂components       // Reusable UI components
 ┃ ┣ 📂pages            // Routing and views
 ┃ ┣ 📂redux            // Redux store & slices
 ┃ ┗ 📂styles           // Tailwind and custom styles
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 ┣ 📂server             // Node.js backend
 ┃ ┣ 📂controllers      // Business logic
 ┃ ┣ 📂models           // Prisma models
 ┃ ┣ 📂routes           // API endpoints
 ┃ ┣ 📂middlewares      // JWT auth, error handlers, etc
 ┃ ┗ 📂utils            // Helper functions (e.g., email, stripe)

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🔐 Authentication

• Secure JWT-based auth
• Protected routes for users and admin
• Role-based access control in dashboard

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💳 Payment Integration

• Integrated Stripe Checkout
• Secure handling of payment and order confirmation
• Order status management from admin dashboard

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📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.