Coffee Shop: Coffee Culture

Coffee Culture is a full e-commerce website for a coffee shop, built with the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js).

It lets customers browse a coffee product catalog, add items to a cart, and check out. The cart works for both guests (saved in localStorage) and logged-in users (synced with the database), so nobody loses their cart items.

Key features:

• Session-based login and signup using Passport.js, with sessions stored in MongoDB
• Optimistic UI updates when adding items to cart, so the app feels fast
• Separate admin panel for managing coffee products (create, update, delete)
• Backend built with a clean layered structure (routes, controllers, services, models)
• Security measures like input validation, rate limiting, and password hashing
• Deployed as a serverless API on Vercel, with the frontend hosted on Netlify