Sustainable Discount Marketplace
A full-stack web application built around a small, everyday problem: groceries close to their expiry date often get thrown out while shoppers are still hunting for a better price.
Role
Designed the interface, built the product editing and updating features, and worked across both the market and consumer dashboards.
Stack
Overview
A full-stack web application built around a small, everyday problem: groceries close to their expiry date often get thrown out while shoppers are still hunting for a better price. The platform lets local markets list those near-expiry products at a discount, and helps consumers in the same city discover them through location-based browsing, turning potential food waste into savings on both sides.
What it does
- IRole-based accounts with separate market and consumer dashboards
- IIEmail verification at registration and hashed passwords
- IIIProduct management with image upload
- IVLocation-based filtering, search, and pagination
- VA dynamic cart with real-time stock validation
Technical notes
- IAuthentication and access control were the heart of the project: role-based auth, email verification at sign-up, and bcrypt-hashed passwords kept the two user types and their data cleanly separated and secure.
- IIImage uploads handled with Multer; registration emails sent through Nodemailer.
- IIIContainerized with Docker for a consistent environment across machines.
What I learned
My first real full-stack project, built around an original idea; it taught me how interface, server, and database fit together as one system.