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Set up and understand the shopper sample app

Set up and understand the shopper sample app

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Set up and understand the shopper sample app

- [Instructor] The shopper sample application that comes with this course, is an express application that represents the shopping system with, an item management, a shopping page, a shopping basket, user management and also order management. All the boilerplate code as well as the express routes are in place already so that we can focus on implementing the database functionality. As we work through this course we will use MongoDB, Redis and MySQL for different aspects of this project and learn about their individual strengths. Where it's applicable, we will also use dedicated libraries that are built on top of the basic database drivers we are using in Maxcoin. So if we look into the package.json file of shopper we see that we have these express dependencies that we need express itself. We use some express-session management. We use cookies. We rely also on the body-parser for the forms. And we use Pug as a…

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