The MERN Marketplace application already allows its users to become sellers and maintain shops with products that can be bought by regular users. In this chapter, we will extend these functionalities to allow sellers to create auctions for items that other users can place bids on in a fixed duration of time. The auction view will describe the item for sale and let signed in users place bids when the auction is live. Different users can place their own bids, and also see other users placing bids in real-time, with the view updating accordingly. The completed auction view, with an auction in a live state, will render as follows:
The code for the complete MERN Marketplace application is available on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Full-Stack-React-Projects-Second-Edition/tree/master/Chapter09/mern-marketplace-bidding...
