You want stuff? Yeah, we got stuff.

This is a practice web application that provides functionality for an item catalog.

• Users can log in with Google or Facebook
• Users have a shopping cart to buy items in the catalog.
• Users can add products to the catalog to sell
• Users can upload images for their products.
• Front-end done with Bootstrap and includes pagination and carousels.
• Forms are created with WTF-Forms, which do form validation and eliminate cross-site request forgery attacks.
• Server side framework is Flask
• Google and Facebook logins are handled server-side
• DB-API is Flask-SQLAlchemy
• Offers RESTful API in JSON format
• Offers RSS and Atom feeds
• RSS and Atom feeds are rebuilt as a scheduled task using Flask-APScheduler
• Server-side error handling
• Project built in a Vagrant virtual machine

You will need Vagrant and VirtualBox in order to use this project

1. Clone the repo
2. At the command line, navigate to the repo’s directory.
3. Fire up the virtual machine with vagrant up
4. Log into the virtual machine with vagrant ssh
5. Navigate to the server directory with cd /vagrant/catalog/
6. Start the server with python runserver.py
7. Navigate in your browser to http://localhost:8000

To populate the database with mock records:

1. Navigate to cd /vagrant/catalog/ at the command line
2. Run python populator.py

After running the populator, you can easily login with the populator’s non-Google, non-Facebook account by navigating to /login. This route is only provided for testing and debugging purposes. Remove this route and its function(login()) in views.py before putting this website in production.

All JSON requests are HTTP GET requests. The base directory is the domain name. For example, http://localhost:8000/categories/json to request all categories

1. Get a list of all categories at /categories/json
2. Get a list of all products in a category at /category/{category_id}/products/json
3. Get detailed product information at /product/{product_id}/json
4. Get reviews for a specific product at /product/{product_id}/reviews/json

Get the “newly-added” RSS and Atom feeds at /rss/newly-added.xml and /atom/newly-added.xml

A photos provided here are from Pixabay and are under a Creative Commons license

This project is provided under MIT License.