With Order collection and the database access all set up, moving forward it is easy to add the features of listing orders for each user, and showing details of a single order in a separate view where the user can track the status of each ordered product:
Following the steps repeated throughout this book, for setting up backend APIs to retrieve data and using it in the frontend to construct frontend views, you can develop order-related views as desired, taking inspiration from the snapshots of these sample views in the MERN Marketplace application code:
The MERN Marketplace application developed in this and Chapter 6, Exercising New MERN Skills with an Online Marketplace, by building on the MERN skeleton application, covered the crucial features for a standard online marketplace application. This, in turn, demonstrated how the MERN stack can be extended to incorporate complex features.