Gully Cart

Local vendor discovery prototype that connects customers with nearby street cart vendors. The repository contains static/Vite frontend pages and an Express/MongoDB backend for vendor registration and login.

Features

• Customer-facing pages for search, cart discovery, profile, about, and contact.
• Vendor registration and login workflows.
• Express API with MongoDB persistence.
• Password hashing with bcrypt.
• Session-based authentication with Passport.
• Static assets for cart categories, vendor pages, and landing screens.

Repository structure

gully-cart/
  app.js              # Express server
  models/             # Mongoose vendor/user models
  *.html, *.css, *.js # frontend pages
  public/             # images and static assets
  package.json        # backend and Vite dependencies

vitereact/gully-cart/
  *.html, *.css, *.js # Vite frontend copy
  public/             # frontend assets
  package.json

Getting started

Install dependencies for the backend app:

cd gully-cart
npm install
node app.js

The Express server runs on:

http://localhost:8080

MongoDB must be running locally at:

mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/projects

To run the Vite frontend copy:

cd vitereact/gully-cart
npm install
npm run dev

Development notes

• Do not commit node_modules; install dependencies from package.json.
• Move secrets such as session keys and database URLs into environment variables before using this outside local development.