How to implement cart

[bennjjii]

Can somebody give me a brief overview of how the cart works for logged in and non logged in users? I am using express + ejs templating, so server needs to render a cart page using the users stored selections. I just don't know where to store this data. Is it a feature of vendure?

Thank you

[michaelbromley]

Hi,

The docs covering this are here: https://www.vendure.io/docs/storefront/shop-api-guide/

The cart works the same for both authenticated and guest customers. You execute the addItemToOrder mutation and then Vendure will store this in an Order entity, which will be available via the activeOrder query.

Note that the correct functioning depends on proper session handling, which is covered here: https://www.vendure.io/docs/storefront/managing-sessions/

[bennjjii]

Hi,

That's great, thank you for the pointers