Fruits and Vegetables Ecommerce

A full-featured ASP.NET Core MVC e-commerce web application designed for selling fruits and vegetables online, with role-based access control for admin, vendors, and customers.

Key Features:

1. Product Management & Display

Categories and subcategories (e.g., Fruits → Fresh Fruits, Organic Fruits, Vegetables → Fresh Vegetables, Organic Vegetables) are dynamically loaded.

Infinite scrolling on the product listing page – loads 8 products initially, then 4 more products on scroll.

Add to Cart via AJAX – Smooth, page-refresh-free cart management.

Planned favorites/wishlist functionality after cart completion.

2. Role-Based Dashboards

Admin Dashboard

Full control over categories, subcategories, users, vendors, and products.

Can approve/reject vendor products.

Implements soft delete & edit for categories and products.

Manages roles and privileges.

Vendor Dashboard

Vendors can add, edit, and manage their own products.

View orders for their products.

Limited access to only vendor-related modules.

3. Data Seeding

Seeded roles (Admin, Vendor, Customer), an admin user, and initial categories and subcategories.

4. Repository-Service-Controller Architecture

Ensures clean separation of concerns between data access, business logic, and presentation.

5. AutoMapper Integration

Used in services like CartService to map between entities and DTOs/ViewModels.

Tech Stack:

Backend: ASP.NET Core MVC, C#, Entity Framework Core, Repository-Service Pattern

Frontend: HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, AJAX

Database: SQL Server with EF Core migrations and seeding

Security: Identity roles (Admin, Vendor, Customer) for role-based authorization

Other: AutoMapper, LINQ, Partial Views