INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Introduction

This is a tool created to facilitate inventory management in a store or a warehouse with an added functionality to print out the inventory, authentication, creating new users that have the access to the website, adding/removing items from the inventory. This project was made as a part of DEVSOC projects for the Web-development vertical. The project was built using the MERN( Mongoose, Express, Node JS, and React JS) stack and semantic-UI react. The link is available here

Setting up development environment

• Clone this repository
• Add a file keys.js in a config folder in the server folder with the following format

module.exports= {
      dbURI:"mongodb connection link",
      secret: "Your secret"
}

• Run npm install in your terminal after changing directory to the client folder and then npm start.
• Run npm install in your terminal after changing directory to the server folder and then npm start.

Team Members

• Ananth Raghav (Backend)
• Anirudh Pupneja (Frontend)
• Omkar Kulkarni (Frontend)

Contributions:

Ananth Raghav

• Designed the entire server
• In the frontend, created the sidenav using semantic ui.

Anirudh Pupneja

• Worked on the basic frontend and routing of pages.
• Worked on react-to-print(a third party npm package).
• Worked on the search for categories and other bugs on the front-end.

Omkar Kulkarni

• Worked on the UI/UX design
• Made the add product/category,  delete product/category pages
• Defined the model for products in the backend.

New things learnt

Ananth Raghav

• Customizing and handling errors in mongoose and express.
• Tackling authorisation and learned a lot about CORS and handling errors associated with it.
• Learnt Graphql for the project(did not use it due to time constraint).
• Learnt how json web tokens work and how to secure the server properly.
• Learnt how to create pdf's through various third party packages.
• Explored React more in depth

Anirudh Pupneja

• Worked with react.js

Omkar Kulkarni

• Learnt and worked with react js, node js, mongodb, mongoose.
• Learnt and used semantic ui.
• Learnt how to make websites responsive in react.js using third party packages.

Credentials for the app: Username: Raghav, password: test12