🧙‍♂️ Microservices Project

A fictional e-commerce site where users can browse Merlin's magical product catalog, manage their shopping cart, and complete checkout — supported by a set of microservices.

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📸 Screenshots

Home

Product catalog

Product details

Cart summary

Checkout

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🔍 Features

• Browse, filter and search product catalog
• View product details pages, including product stock and returns policy
• Add and remove products from shopping cart
• Control the amount of each product in the shopping cart
• View cart summary and proceed to checkout
• Provide billing and shipping details, including order subtotal/tax/total and input discount code
• Receive order confirmation and automatically update product stock based on order contents

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📦 Technologies Used

Frontend

• React (JSX-based components)
• Tailwind CSS
• Axios
• React Router DOM

Backend Gateway (Node.js)

• Express.js
• ZeroMQ
• CORS

Microservices

• 3 microservices written in Python, using ZeroMQ for communication, including:
  • Read and update product stock
  • Read product returns policies
  • Provide discount code validation
• 1 microservice written in JavaScript, using HTTP fetch pattern, including:
  • Order tax calculation

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🛠️ Installation

Frontend

cd frontend
npm install react react-dom react-router-dom tailwindcss axios
npm run preview

Backend

cd backend
npm install cors express zeromq
npm run start

Microservice A

cd microservice-a
git clone https://github.com/Joanna324/tax-rate-microservice.git
cd tax-rate-microservice
node index.js

NOTE: Update index.js PORT to 40699 before starting up

Microservice B

cd microservice-b
python3 server.py

Microservice C

cd microservice-c
python3 server.py

Microservice D

cd microservice-d
python3 server.py

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👥 Authors

• Main Project: Colin Sonnenberg (github.com/sonnenco)
• Microservice A: Joanna Faulk (github.com/joanna324)