SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core

https://github.com/simplcommerce/SimplCommerce

by maherjend • 9 years ago

86 16 9 years ago

arenaninja• 9 years ago

I really like this! I'll keep an eye on it for now :)

justboxing2• 9 years ago

This is great! Congratulations on shipping!! You should add "Show HN " prefix to your title, since this looks like a show and tell.

I checked out the demo site and the Admin Dashboard. Seems to have everything needed to host an ecommerce site... except, I didn't find any payment gateway integration. Even checked http://demo.simplcommerce.com/Admin#/configuration and didn't find it.

Any plans to integrate payment gateway or API (ex Stripe ) in the near future, or was I not looking in the right place?

Thank you! P.S. Any recommendations for hosting this? Can this be deployed on Amazon Lambda? Or will I need Azure? How about traditional hosts like DiscountASP.Net? Any pro and cons you are aware of?

rbalsdon• 9 years ago

My first thought was to check the source for how they're handling credit card data, payments, and gateways. I can't find any of it... Skipping those bits makes ecommerce _a lot_ easier to build!

I second parent's suggestion here though, Stripe API is a great place to start.

justboxing2• 9 years ago

Yep, I looked at the Repo on Github and it lists Payments on their roadmap after v1.0.0.

https://github.com/simplcommerce/SimplCommerce/wiki/Roadmap

jimnotgym• 9 years ago

I'm always pleased to see ecommerce thats more simple than Magento et al.

Good luck!

gressquel• 9 years ago

Well done, I will follow this.

cies• 9 years ago

I recently stumbled on QOR (http://getqor.com - https://github.com/qor/qor), which is a set of libs in Go that you can quickly build a webshop with. QOR seems to use a combination of vanilla-JS and jQuery, where SimplCommerce uses Angular.

Good to see these efforts, as some of the more popular open source e-commerce systems are showing their age (often aggravated by the underlying languages/ecosystems showing their age as well).

ahansen• 9 years ago

Great stuff, I love seeing what people are building with .NET Core. I feel like I'm getting much closer to the point that I could confidently commit to building a greenfields project for a client in it.

Are there any parts of the project you could highlight as being much harder or easier as a result of building it in .NET Core over, say, .NET 4.6?

cltsang• 9 years ago

I've been trying to port an existing .NET 4.6 ASP.NET project to .NET Core. So far there are 2 major problems:

1. entity framework core code first does not support table per type inheritance, which makes database migration necessary

2. some libraries do not support .NET Core yet

runfaster2000• 9 years ago

Adopting and porting to .NET Core will become a ton easier, later this year. .NET Core 2.0 will add a ton of .NET Framework APIs.

These APIs are almost entirely coming from .NET Standard 2.0. See the jump in APIs in this table[1].

We often get asked if this is going against the promise of a light-weight development platform. Answer: not really. The new APIs are not being added to a single library, but several, including new ones. We will be updating our publishing tools to make it easier publish apps w/only the libraries you need. We are also looking at going one step further, which is publishing only the IL you need (intra-assembly optimization).

I am spending the week presenting at two Microsoft conferences in Europe (Milan, Amsterdam). I heard very similar feedback on EF yesterday in Milan. I will be passing this off to the EF team.

FYI: I'm a .NET Core team member.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/faq.md#i....

hbakhtiyor• 9 years ago

the platform, also listed at https://www.ecommwar.com/

there are almost all open-source ecommerce platforms

juba082• 9 years ago

thanks this will really help me.

locusm• 9 years ago

Nice find. I'm still trying to find a good on-prem solution after Lemonstand v1 went abandonware.

juba082• 9 years ago

i am about to start a e-commerce website. i was going to use nopcommerce but they will move to .net core in next release which is far away and i really wonder which would be better to improve me also maintain the website with minimum effort.

GiorgioG• 9 years ago

As a .NET developer it's nice to see projects like these. On the other hand I had looked at this a while back and my impression of the data model (specifically the Product class) was not great.

https://github.com/simplcommerce/SimplCommerce/blob/master/s...

Price, OldPrice, SpecialPrice, special price start and end dates properties are less than ideal for any non-trivial implementation. Prices should be driven by policies, not defined in the product itself (IMO.)

xanadohnt• 9 years ago

It's "super simple". There's one pricing policy and it's hardcoded. As layers of abstraction are added in support of richer features, so too is complexity and hence "not-so super simple".

SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core

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