Install Cezerin eCommerce Platform on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04

Cezerin eCommerce is a leading open source eCommerce platform built with React and Node that makes it super easy to develop and host your online store front and sell your products directly to your customers….

If you want an open source eCommerce platform that is scalable and performs at a high level, then Cezerin is a good place to start… Cezerin is built on an open source core with support for open standards, which might be very useful in helping you run your digital content…

With it high-quality Progressive Web App features, you will delight your users and customers, improving engagement thus increasing conversions..

This eCommerce platform is designed for ease of use to allow enterprises and business owners to collaborate and automate engaging experiences with users across multiple devices, including mobile…

For more about Cezerin, please check their Homepage

This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install Cezerin eCommerce platform on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 and 18.10 systems.These are the packages we’re going to be setting up…

Node.js
MongoDB

Step 1: Install Node

To install Ruby and Rails on Ubuntu, you’ll need to install some dependencies… To make that happen, install Node.js and Yarn repositories… This will make installing the dependencies easier…

First install these curl and git packages…

sudo apt update
sudo apt install curl git

Than run the commands below to add Node.js and Yarn repositories and keys to your system…. Then install some core packages to get your environment going…

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs yarn zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev software-properties-common libffi-dev

When you’re done… continue below:

Step 2: Install MongoDB Database Server

Now that Node.js is installed, follow these steps to install MongoDB…

MongoDB is available via Ubuntu default repositories… However, installing from Ubuntu default repositories might not necessarily installed the latest version…

To install MongoDB default repository, run the commands below to add its default repository GPG key..

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 9DA31620334BD75D9DCB49F368818C72E52529D4

After that, run the commands below to add its repository file..

echo "deb [ arch=amd64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu bionic/mongodb-org/4.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.0.list

When you’re done, run the commands below to install

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mongodb-org

That should install the latest version of MongoDB

After installing MongoDB, these commands can be used to stop, start and enable MongoDB service to automatically start up when the server boots..

sudo systemctl stop mongod.service
sudo systemctl start mongod.service
sudo systemctl enable mongod.service

To check MongoDB status, run the commands below:

sudo systemctl status mongod.service

You should see similar lines as below:

● mongod.service - MongoDB Database Server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mongod.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-07-18 14:06:07 CDT; 51s ago
     Docs: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual
 Main PID: 17068 (mongod)
   CGroup: /system.slice/mongod.service
           └─17068 /usr/bin/mongod --config /etc/mongod.conf

Jul 18 14:06:07 ubuntu1804 systemd[1]: Started MongoDB Database Server.

Step 3: Install Cezerin eCommerce

Now that your environment is ready, run the commands below to install Cezerin eCommerce and build your first site… Next, run the commands below

cd ~/
git clone https://github.com/cezerin/cezerin.git

Next change into the Cezerin’s folder and install there…

cd ~/cezerin
npm update node-sass
npm install --unsafe-perm --allow-root
npm run build
npm run setup

After running the setup, you should see similar lines as below:

> cezerin@0.33.0 setup /home/richard/cezerin
> node -r esm src/api/server/setup.js

info: Successfully connected to mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/shop
info: - Added page: /
info: - Added page: /checkout
info: - Added page: /checkout-success
info: - Added page: /about
info: - Added products
info: - Added email template for Order Confirmation
info: - Added shipping method
info: - Added payment method
info: - Created indexes for: pages
info: - Created indexes for: productCategories
info: - Created indexes for: products
info: - Created indexes for: customers
info: - Created indexes for: orders

Finally, run the commands to start the server…

npm start

When you do that, you should see similar lines as below:

[start-api] 
[start-api] > cezerin@0.33.0 start-api /home/richard/cezerin
[start-api] > node -r esm src/api/server/index.js
[start-api] 
[start-store] 
[start-store] > cezerin@0.33.0 start-store /home/richard/cezerin
[start-store] > node -r esm dist/store/server/index.js
[start-store] 
[start-store] info: Store running at http://localhost:3000
[start-api] info: API running at http://localhost:3001
[start-api] info: MongoDB connected successfully

Now open your browser and browse to the hostname follow by port # 3000

http://localhost:3000/

You should see Cezerin home page…

Congratulation! You have successfully installed Cezerin eCommerce platform on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 | 18.10