👾 Features

• 🔐 User authentication with JWT (Login, Register, Logout)
• 📚 Browse books with search, filter, pagination
• 🛒 Add to Cart / Buy Now (guest + logged in)
• 📦 Checkout with PDF invoice & email
• 💬 Reviews & ratings system
• ❤️ Wishlist management
• 📊 Admin dashboard (books, users, orders)
• 🧑‍💻 Profile page with edit, password reset, delete
• 🌈 Fully animated UI (fade, swipe, hover, modal transitions)
• 📬 Email integration via nodemailer
• 📄 Deployment on Render (Backend) & Vercel (Frontend)

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📁 Project Structure

└── Bookstore-Management-System/
    ├── LICENSE
    ├── README.md
    ├── bookstore-backend
    │   ├── .env.example
    │   ├── config
    │   ├── controllers
    │   ├── middleware
    │   ├── models
    │   ├── package-lock.json
    │   ├── package.json
    │   ├── routes
    │   ├── server.js
    │   └── utils
    ├── bookstore-frontend
    │   ├── .gitignore
    │   ├── README.md
    │   ├── eslint.config.js
    │   ├── index.html
    │   ├── package-lock.json
    │   ├── package.json
    │   ├── postcss.config.js
    │   ├── public
    │   ├── src
    │   ├── tailwind.config.js
    │   └── vite.config.js
    ├── postman
    │   ├── bookstore-api.postman_collection.json
    └── package-lock.json

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🚀 Getting Started

☑️ Prerequisites

Before getting started with Bookstore-Management-System, ensure your runtime environment meets the following requirements:

• Node.js
• MongoDB Atlas database
• Render account (for backend deployment)
• Vercel account (for frontend deployment

🚀 Usage

To run the Bookstore Management System locally, follow the steps below for both frontend and backend:

🔧 Backend Setup

cd bookstore-backend
npm install
npm start dev

🎨 Frontend Setup

cd bookstore-frontend
npm install
npm run dev

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📌 Project Roadmap

• ✅ Authentication (Login / Register)
• ✅ Book management (CRUD)
• ✅ Cart (guest + user)
• ✅ Wishlist for Logged-In users.
• ✅ Checkout + Email support.
• ✅ Reviews & Ratings.
• ✅ Admin panel (only for Admins).
• ✅ Filtering, Pagination.
• ✅ Full animations & polish.
• ✅ Deployment
• ✅ README & Documentation.

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🙌 Acknowledgments

I've used these platforms and libraries in my project :

• MongoDB Atlas – Hosted NoSQL database for scalable and flexible data storage.
• Render – Cloud platform used for deploying the backend Node.js server.
• Vercel – Optimized deployment platform for hosting the frontend React application.
• PDFKit – Enables dynamic generation of PDF invoices after successful orders.
• TailwindCSS – Utility-first CSS framework for building clean, responsive user interfaces.
• React Hot Toast – Lightweight toast notifications for instant user feedback.
• Framer Motion – Animations and transitions for smooth UI interactions.
• Lucide Icons – Elegant and consistent icon set used across the app.
• JWT (JSON Web Token) – Secure authentication and user session management.
• Express.js – Backend framework used for building RESTful APIs.

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📬 API Testing (Postman)

You can find the Postman collection for testing all backend API endpoints in the postman/ directory.

Import it in Postman for ready-to-use request sets.

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🎗 License

This project is protected under the MIT License. For more details, refer to the LICENSE file.