Invoice Central: An invoicing Web App

An easy to use invoicing app to generate and manage invoices. It allows users to set up a shop, add products, generate invoices and share them with other users. The invoices are easily available on a public link, to both the customer and the vendor.

Flow

1. Vendor

   • Login/Register
   • Set up shop (/shop/register)
   • Add Products (/products/add)
   • Create Invoice (/invoice) : adding customer email, automatically shares the invoice.

2. Customer

   • Login/Register
   • Share email with vendor
   • Recieve Invoice

Setup

0. Install node, npm and MongoDB

• Node & Npm: https://nodejs.org/en/
• MongoDB: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/installation/

Note:

• MongoDB should be running on localhost port 27017, to change, edit server.js line no. 19
• Create invoiceCentral database in MongoDB, to change, edit server.js line no. 19

1. Package Installation:

yarn or npm i

2. Start Server

yarn start or npm run start

Routes

Endpoints	Types	Usage
/	GET	Dashboard
/login	POST, GET, DELETE	Login Users
/signup	POST, GET	Signup Users
/shop/register	POST, GET	Set up shop
/products/add	POST, GET	Add products
/products/search/:shopId?key=val	GET	Search products using query
/invoice	GET, POST	Generate invoice
/invoice/:invoiceId	GET	View invoice

Learnings

• REST API
• MongoDB along with aggregation queries
• PassportJS with local strategy to authenticate users
• Puppeter
• HTTP Request Types