Darling Donuts is a delightful microservices-based website designed to showcase and sell a variety of delicious donuts. The project is built on the MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) stack, ensuring a seamless user experience and efficient management of the donut catalog. With an attractive user interface and a wide selection of mouthwatering donuts, Darling Donuts is the perfect place for donut enthusiasts to satisfy their cravings.

• Microservices Architecture: The website is designed using a microservices architecture, allowing for modularity, scalability, and easy maintenance of individual components.
• MongoDB: The application leverages MongoDB to store and manage the donut catalog, ensuring a flexible and efficient data storage solution.
• Express: The Express.js framework is used to develop the server-side of the application, handling HTTP requests and business logic.
• React: The website’s frontend is built using React, providing a dynamic and interactive user interface for an enhanced shopping experience.
• Node.js: The application’s backend is developed using Node.js, enabling fast and event-driven processing of data and requests.
• User Authentication: Darling Donuts incorporates user authentication to provide personalized experiences, order tracking, and secure payment processing.
• Cart Functionality: Customers can easily add their favorite donuts to their shopping cart, allowing for seamless order management.
• Order Tracking: The website offers real-time order tracking, enabling customers to monitor the status of their orders and estimated delivery times.
• Payment Integration: Secure payment gateways are integrated, ensuring safe and hassle-free transactions.
• Responsive Design: Darling Donuts is optimized for all devices, providing a consistent user experience across desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
• Admin Dashboard: An intuitive admin dashboard is included to manage the donut catalog, process orders, and track customer data efficiently.

• MongoDB: A popular NoSQL database used for efficient and scalable data storage.
• Express: A minimalist web application framework for Node.js, facilitating server-side development.
• React: A powerful JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces.
• Node.js: A runtime environment for executing JavaScript code on the server-side.
• Authentication: Libraries or techniques are used for user authentication and session management.
• Payment Integration: Secure and reliable payment gateway integration to facilitate online transactions.
• Microservices Architecture: Utilized to ensure modularity, scalability, and easy maintenance of components.

To run the Darling Donuts website locally, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository to your local machine.
2. Navigate to the project directory and install the required dependencies using npm or yarn.
3. Set up the MongoDB database and configure the necessary environment variables.
4. Start the development server using the appropriate npm/yarn command.
5. Open your preferred web browser and access the Darling Donuts website at http://localhost:3000 (or a different port if specified).

Contributions from the open-source community are welcome to enhance the Darling Donuts website further. If you wish to contribute, please follow the standard pull request process after making the necessary changes.

This project is licensed under the MIT License, allowing you to freely use, modify, and distribute the code.

We express our appreciation to the MERN stack creators, MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js, for providing robust technologies that contributed to the development of Darling Donuts.

For any inquiries or feedback, please feel free to contact us at mahmoudh.buss@gmail.com or via GitHub.

Satisfy your sweet tooth with Darling Donuts! 🍩❤️