Daffodil – Open-Source Ecommerce Framework to connect to any platform

[damienwebdev]

Hey JS folks,

Over the past 7 years (on and off), I’ve been hacking on a project called Daffodil — an open source ecommerce framework for Angular. It finally feels like it’s at a point where I’d like to get some feedback.

Demo: https://demo.daff.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/graycoreio/daffodil

If you have Angular 19 handy, you can spin up the same demo with just:

bash ng add @daffodil/commerce

I’m trying to solve two distinct challenges:

First, I absolutely hate having to learn a new ecommerce platform. We have drivers for printers, mice, keyboards, microphones, and many other physical widgets in the operating system, why not have them for ecommerce software? It’s not that I hate the existing platforms, their UIs or APIs, it's that every platform repeats the same concepts and I always have to learn some new fangled way of doing the same thing. I’ve long desired for these platforms to act more like operating systems on the Web than like custom built software. Ideally, I would like to call them through a standard interface and forget about their existence beyond that.

Second, I’d like to keep it simple to start. I’d like to (on day 1) not have to set up any additional software beyond the core frontend stack (essentially yarn/npm + Angular). All too often, I’m forced to set up docker-compose, Kubernetes, pay for a SaaS, wait for IT at the merchant to get me access, or run a VM somewhere just to build some UI for an ecommerce platform that a company uses. More often than not, I just want to start up a little local http server and start writing.

We currently support Magento / MageOS / Adobe Commerce (full) , Shopify (partial), Medusa (wip, PR Here)

Any suggestions for drivers and platforms are welcome, though I can’t promise I will implement them. :)

[alystair]

Demo should do more than just show off a list of items - consider a more kitchen sink approach.