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Best Practices for Storing Cart Details with Order IDs in Your MERN Stack Application

In modern e-commerce applications built on the MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js) stack, efficient management of cart details is crucial for seamless order processing. This blog post explores best practices for designing a robust database schema and implementing an efficient storage solution for cart details within the MERN stack.

In a MERN stack application, cart entries typically consist of essential information such as product ID, quantity, price, and any additional metadata. These details need to be associated with a unique order ID to facilitate order fulfillment and tracking.

When designing the database schema for storing cart details and order IDs in a MERN stack application, we leverage MongoDB's flexibility to create a schema that suits our needs.
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This is how data going to store in the Mongodb database.

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