How to Develop an E-commerce Application

Learn to build a fully functional e-commerce application by exploring which technologies are available for use.

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A note to the learners!

In this course, you will amplify your development skills by learning how to build an e-commerce platform from scratch. First, you must be familiar with Java and Spring Boot, which we’ll use to build the backend, and Vue.js, which we’ll use for the front-end.

Prerequisites

This course assumes that you have a basic practical knowledge of JavaScript, Java, Vue.js, REST (Representational State Transfer) API, and Spring Boot. It also assumes that you know how to run them on your local machine.

If you are not adept at these technologies, please visit some of our related courses, and take this course after you are comfortable with them. We designed the course for learners who want to learn how to develop a complete e-commerce application using Java, Spring Boot, and Vue.js.

Overview

Getting an overview of the tools that we will work with is always the best starter pack! Let’s get a quick overview of two of the world’s most wanted frameworks, which we’ll use to build our e-commerce application.

About the Spring framework

The Spring framework is a primary open-source Java/J2EE application development framework for a more productive application development.

It is the most popular Java framework with a 30% share of usage. The Spring framework features enable efficient development from simple web to complex enterprise applications.

The main concepts that the Spring framework depends on are listed below:

  1. Dependency Injection (DI)
  2. Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
  3. Java Persistence API (JPA)

About Vue.js

Vue is a JavaScript framework that is used to build user interfaces. It is a progressive framework, which is incrementally adoptable.

We can use Vue in two ways. We can either create a complete Vue website, commonly known as a Single-page application, or we can create stand-alone widgets (also known as components), which we can then use in our HTML as an addition. This way, the adoption of Vue in our application is totally in our hands. In this course, we’ll create a Vue website for our e-commerce application.

Make sure you have basic knowledge of the request-response cycle as well as web containers. Let’s jump into the tutorial!