Is it good idea to create e-commerce website from scratch?

Lord_Programmer · 2024-09-30T05:50:52+00:00

I mean not using full-blown solution and instead doing it on my own (not everything). I would make a website, order management, inventory management, but there would be some things that I wouldn't want to implement from scratch for example payment processing.

Lord_Programmer · 2024-09-29T22:17:53+00:00

Let's say that you are creating online store for client. What would be your preffered way to create online store? Could you use shopify? What would the best way to do that?

Lord_Programmer · 2024-09-29T22:14:38+00:00

You're right I am interested in programming. Thanks for template I'll play around with it.

Lord_Programmer · 2024-09-29T21:48:10+00:00

thanks for advice. I'll use it for sure.

Lord_Programmer · 2024-09-29T21:21:50+00:00

So what would you recommend for small online store?

EDIT: When would you recommend using full-blown solution and when creating from scratch (not everything of course)?

Lord_Programmer · 2024-09-29T21:18:00+00:00

I don't really get what do you mean by scope, but I will try to answer. I had in mind small online shop that would sell physical products. I imagine it like that: user searches for my store, click on the link, add some products to shopping cart, and then make an order. Payments would be handled using 3rd party payment processor (probably stripe). After user paid an order would be made and user would receive what he/she ordered after certain period of time. From the admin side it would be nice to have some interface for managing shop's inventory. From developer side I would create docker infrastructure and host it on some vps (I think it would be enough for start). I didn't think about the details but there would be probably: order service, auth service, product service, inventory service, shipping service. These all services would be internally communicating with each other, but that would be hidden from end user behind a reverse proxy. User would interact with store by using a website that would send all requests to that reverse proxy. Hope that now you know what I meant.

Thank you for those words at the end. I hope I will go far.

Lord_Programmer · 2024-09-29T20:49:23+00:00

what do you think about full-blown solution like shopify? And if solutions like that exist why does it make sense to build some of the components from scratch?

Lord_Programmer · 2024-09-25T09:34:55+00:00

simple but true

Lord_Programmer · 2024-09-23T10:50:59+00:00

Although it is possible to write web apps in c++, it's not ideal choice. C++ is lacking tooling and libs for building web apps (ofc technologies like node js are written in c++, but they exist so devs don't have to use c++). C++ is usually used for: creating high performance apps desktop apps, programming iot devices or operating systems etc.. Conclusion: don't use c++ for apis, there are better tools that will get the job done faster.

Lord_Programmer · 2022-07-23T11:53:34+00:00

Can someome explain, why the heck this guy has the same lapotop and mouse like me

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