SALEOR damn cool e-commerce and…it’s open source!!
So, I assume that you are searching a way to build a web platform such as an e-commerce website. There are a lot of templates, a lot of suggestions and a lot of free-mium alternatives and it’s really hard to figure out which solution could suits best your expectations.
If you like to code but you are not as advanced as a professional software developer, you will find yourself stucked at reading boring documentation...
You deserve to spend your time in a more productive way, so listen to me! What you need is something to put your hands on, something that works so well you strive to know the magic that’s behind it.
If you like the dirty job of do it on your own, you surely want to know more about SALEOR (https://saleor.io/)
Main technologies behind Saleor e-commerce
- Docker
- Python-3
- Django-2
- React
- GraphQL
- Apollo GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- TypeScript
“Saleor is powered by a GraphQL server running on top of Python 3 and a Django 2 framework. Both the storefront and the dashboard are React applications written in TypeScript and use Apollo GraphQL. Strict quality checks and reviews make the code easy to read and understand. High test coverage ensures it’s also safe to deploy in a continuous manner.”
So now that you know what’s “under the hood” you can easily think that we are half way to discover what you need to take advantage from all of this.
Not so simple at all…you also will have to know about something special as:
- Babel
- Webpack
- Django REST framework
OK…you are confused and/or you want to see what we are talking about, right? https://demo.saleor.io/
just play around for a bit…do you like it? do you want it? it’s yours! just a few steps away!!! in the next tutorial I’ll explain you how to build it and run it on your local machine!
All of above is what you will master at the end of deep diving in a project like this. Moreover now you know what technology is needed.
