A Full Stack Online Medicine Shop web platform with two interfaces for searching and buying for customers, accepting and tracking orders for shop owners.

Functionalities

• JWT is used for customer-side authentication and to distinguish users.
• Python (Flask) is used in the backend as the primary language.
• HTML/CSS is used as the primary front-end language. Javascript is used for API calls and rendering dynamic data.
• Postgres is used as the database.
• Cart is stored in the browser cache using localStorage of Javascript.
• Bcrypt hashing algorithm is used to store the password in the database.
• Customer can sign-up, login, logout, place and track orders.
• Shop owners can track orders and update their status.

How JWT Works?

Requirements/Steps to run

• Install Python
• Install Postgres
• Create a database "mediko"
• Configure .env file in root directory of project
• Run 'pip install -r requirements.txt'
• Run python3 app.py

Environment Variables

• APP_PORT=####
• POSTGRES_DATABASE=####
• POSTGRES_HOST=###
• POSTGRES_USER=####
• POSTGRES_PASSWORD=###
• JWT_SECRET_KEY=###

Improvements / Future Work

• Adding inventory management from the shop interface. Owners can add, delete or update the stock of medicines in the shop.
• Customers can request cancellation from the customer's end.
• Categorize medicines based on it's composition. Provide a better interface for medicine search.