Jumia
A full clone of Jumia built from scratch with real cart logic, product listings and user authentication.
Overview
This is a full stack clone of Jumia, Africa's largest e-commerce platform. Not a UI copy and paste, but a working application with real authentication, a functional shopping cart and dynamic product listings pulled from a backend I built. The goal was to understand how a large scale e-commerce platform actually works under the hood by building every layer of it myself.
The Problem
Most developers claim they can build e-commerce. Few have actually sat down and built one end to end, the auth flow, the cart state, the product schema, the API connections and the UI all talking to each other properly. This project was a deliberate challenge to prove I could.
The Solution
Built the entire application on the MERN stack. The frontend handles dynamic product rendering, real time cart updates and user sessions without a single page reload. The backend manages authentication, business logic and data flow through REST APIs I wrote and consumed myself. MongoDB handles the product and user data with schemas designed for scale. The result is a fully working e-commerce application that behaves exactly like the real thing.