As a capstone assignment, the brief was to build a complete eCommerce flow — browsing, cart, checkout — against a real backend rather than static or mocked data, which is what separates a capstone from a course exercise.
Built entirely against FreshCart’s live, real REST API — actual network requests, JWT-based authentication, and real response handling, not a simplified teaching dataset. The app is server-side rendered via Express, going beyond the course’s baseline requirements. This is the project where the foundational REST API integration skill used across every other project in this set was first proven.
A completed, deployed capstone demonstrating full front-to-back integration against a real external API, with SSR handled correctly. There isn’t a dramatic before/after story here the way there is with the operational dashboards — its value in this set is as evidence of solid fundamentals, not a business outcome.