In this chapter, we started building an online marketplace application using the MERN stack. The MERN skeleton was extended to add a seller role to users, so they can create shops and add products to each shop intended for selling to other users. We also explored how to utilize the stack to implement features such as product browsing, searching, and suggestions for regular users who are interesting in buying. But a marketplace application is incomplete without a shopping cart for checkout, order management, and payments processing.
In the next chapter, we will grow our application to add these features and learn more about how the MERN stack can be used to implement these core aspects of an e-commerce application.
