Cashew Store

Splashscreen
open page
varities
Sign up page
Place order page
Tracking order
Wishlist page
Sign in page
Footer part
About us page
Contact us page

Inspiration

My family runs MK Cashews, a cashew business, and I've seen firsthand how much of the ordering, inventory, and customer communication is still done manually — over phone calls and WhatsApp messages. I wanted to build a real e-commerce platform that could bring our family business online, while also giving me hands-on experience building a production-style full-stack application.

What it does

Cashew Store is a full-stack e-commerce web application where customers can:

Browse cashew products with images, descriptions, and pricing
Add items to a cart and place orders
View product categories and details
(Admin side) Manage product listings and orders

It's designed to give a small food business like MK Cashews a simple, professional online storefront.

How we built it

Frontend: Built with React for a fast, component-based UI
Backend: Node.js and Express handle the API layer, routing, and business logic
Database: MongoDB Atlas stores product, user, and order data in the cloud
The frontend and backend communicate via REST APIs, with the backend deployed separately from the client

Challenges we ran into

Structuring the project correctly — early on, files were accidentally created inside node_modules/, which took some debugging to fix
Connecting the React frontend to the Express backend and MongoDB Atlas cleanly, especially around environment variables and CORS
Designing a schema that could represent real cashew products (variants, weights, pricing) in a simple way

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Took the project from idea to a working full-stack app end to end
Solved real project-structure and deployment issues independently
Built something that could genuinely help a real small business (MK Cashews) go online

What we learned

How to structure a MERN-style project (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) cleanly
Debugging real-world issues like file structure conflicts and environment configuration
The full lifecycle of building and connecting a frontend to a live cloud database