MERN E-Commerce Platform with AI Shopping Assistant

Developed a full-stack MERN e-commerce platform with secure JWT authentication, Upstash Redis session management, Stripe payment integration with webhooks, Cloudinary image uploads, and an admin dashboard for managing products, users, and orders. Built an AI shopping assistant using the OpenRouter API to recommend products from the MongoDB database with automatic model fallback for improved reliability. Implemented product search, category filtering, featured products, shopping cart, responsive UI, and interactive animations using React, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, Three.js, and GSAP.