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

https://github.com/vuestorefront/storefront-ui

by jaimefjorge • 3 years ago

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bartroszkowski2• 3 years ago

great piece of stuff

bartroszkowski2• 3 years ago

Great piece of software

kamen40• 3 years ago

100/100 ;)

lukasz1995• 3 years ago

Gonna try this during the weekend

s_severus• 3 years 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• 3 years ago

we're vendure fans over here :)

aleparreira• 3 years ago

Nice release ! Will use it right now ! = )

noren64• 3 years ago

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

Skirianov• 3 years 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• 3 years ago

Why is this thread flagged?

alexlt1• 3 years ago

This is exactly what I was looking for!!!

rlopezt82• 3 years ago

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

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

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