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Building a Scalable E-commerce Website with Laravel and React

Learn how to build a scalable e-commerce website with Laravel and React, including database design, API endpoints, and frontend development.

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Building a Scalable E-commerce Website with Laravel and React
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Introduction to E-commerce Website Development

When I first started working on our company's e-commerce platform, I realized that building a scalable and efficient website was crucial for handling a large volume of users and orders. Our team decided to use Laravel as the backend framework and React for the frontend. In this article, I'll share our experience and the lessons we learned while developing the platform.

Setting Up the Project

To start, we created a new Laravel project and set up the database using MySQL. We also installed the required packages, including Laravel Sanctum for authentication and Laravel Cashier for payment processing. For the frontend, we created a new React app using create-react-app and installed the necessary dependencies, including axios for making API requests.

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel ecommerce-backend
cd ecommerce-backend
composer require laravel/sanctum
composer require laravel/cashier

Database Design

We designed the database schema to include tables for products, orders, custo

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