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Storefront UI 2: Tailwind Based, ECommerce Centric, UI Library for Vue and React

29 points by jaimefjorge 3y ago

bartroszkowski 3y ago
Great piece of software
bartroszkowski 3y ago
great piece of stuff
kamen40 3y ago
100/100 ;)
lukasz1995 3y ago
Gonna try this during the weekend
s_severus 3y ago
I'm the co-founder of a headless commerce backend framework (Vendure) and I've known of the Vue Storefront project for quite a while now. Headless commerce (i.e. API-driven, decoupled front-end) is maximally flexible but comes with the tradeoff that you suddenly have to build an entire storefront from scratch. Compared to off-the-shelf solutions like Shopify, which give you a fully integrated storefront with nice themes, it can be a high barrier for businesses which lack significant funding or developer resources. Previous attempts to solve the front-end part of the headless commerce problem have had mixed results I think. One the one hand is fully-built, backend-agnostic storefronts like Vercel's Next.js Commerce or prior Vue Storefront products. On the other hand is just build from scratch exactly to your needs. The complexity that comes with maintaining a backend-agnostic, full-featured storefront is huge. I think this release is a good middle ground that reminds me of the amazing Tailwind UI project - design primitives and larger components you can basically copy-paste into your own storefront app. It's probably the right way to go, as it saves a bunch of time but still leaves you free to build the storefront exactly as you want it. With recent developments in LLM tech I can imagine a future where open-source, self-built solutions suddenly become way more accessible to more companies, as a single developer is able to use libraries like this and have AI stitch the parts together into a full storefront.
- inesfbarros 3y ago
  we're vendure fans over here :)
aleparreira 3y ago
Nice release ! Will use it right now ! = )
noren64 3y ago
As a react dev I was always envy of Vue Storefront - not anymore
Skirianov 3y ago
You've done a good job. eCommerce needed something modern for a long time already. enterpise really feels dated and this new approach will make ecommerce devs experience finally similar to what others do. like it
rk06 3y ago
Why is this thread flagged?
alexlt1 3y ago
This is exactly what I was looking for!!!
rlopezt82 3y ago
I need to try this, I have 2 projects and this could take half of time on development

29 points by jaimefjorge 3y ago

bartroszkowski 3y ago

Great piece of software

bartroszkowski 3y ago

great piece of stuff

kamen40 3y ago

100/100 ;)

lukasz1995 3y ago

Gonna try this during the weekend

s_severus 3y ago

I'm the co-founder of a headless commerce backend framework (Vendure) and I've known of the Vue Storefront project for quite a while now. Headless commerce (i.e. API-driven, decoupled front-end) is maximally flexible but comes with the tradeoff that you suddenly have to build an entire storefront from scratch. Compared to off-the-shelf solutions like Shopify, which give you a fully integrated storefront with nice themes, it can be a high barrier for businesses which lack significant funding or developer resources. Previous attempts to solve the front-end part of the headless commerce problem have had mixed results I think. One the one hand is fully-built, backend-agnostic storefronts like Vercel's Next.js Commerce or prior Vue Storefront products. On the other hand is just build from scratch exactly to your needs. The complexity that comes with maintaining a backend-agnostic, full-featured storefront is huge. I think this release is a good middle ground that reminds me of the amazing Tailwind UI project - design primitives and larger components you can basically copy-paste into your own storefront app. It's probably the right way to go, as it saves a bunch of time but still leaves you free to build the storefront exactly as you want it. With recent developments in LLM tech I can imagine a future where open-source, self-built solutions suddenly become way more accessible to more companies, as a single developer is able to use libraries like this and have AI stitch the parts together into a full storefront.

inesfbarros 3y ago
we're vendure fans over here :)

aleparreira 3y ago

Nice release ! Will use it right now ! = )

noren64 3y ago

As a react dev I was always envy of Vue Storefront - not anymore

Skirianov 3y ago

You've done a good job. eCommerce needed something modern for a long time already. enterpise really feels dated and this new approach will make ecommerce devs experience finally similar to what others do. like it

rk06 3y ago

Why is this thread flagged?

alexlt1 3y ago

This is exactly what I was looking for!!!

rlopezt82 3y ago

I need to try this, I have 2 projects and this could take half of time on development