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lydiahallie/React-Ecommerce
:purse: Personal Project: E-Commerce website with React
A personal portfolio project by Lydia Hallie (known for JavaScript visualizations) that implements a basic e-commerce UI in React — product filtering, cart, and category browsing. It's a 2019-era learning exercise, not a template anyone should build on.
Component structure is consistent: each feature lives in its own folder with colocated CSS, which is a reasonable pattern for beginners to internalize. The scope is tight enough that the full codebase is readable in an afternoon. Lydia's name carries weight in the JS community, so the repo has accumulated forks from people learning React by example.
Last touched in 2023 but almost certainly built years before — still uses class-era patterns and registerServiceWorker.js from Create React App's original boilerplate. There's no state management beyond local component state and no context/redux, which means the cart logic is likely threaded as prop drilling. The 'own API' mentioned in the README is nowhere in the repo, so you can't actually run this without reverse-engineering what the data shape is supposed to be. Two duplicate Navbar folders (NavBar and Navbar) in the same directory suggest nobody reviewed this before shipping.