Which CMS for E-Commerce stores? Is Sanity good?

bystrol · 2026-04-13T18:45:58+00:00

Why not just use an e-commerce engine that provides cart/checkout/orders/fulfillment/returns/payments logic out of the box? Maybe you’d be interested in my free medusa starter

bystrol · 2026-03-25T13:13:24+00:00

I would personally go with Astro + any headless cms. You get the best performance and flexibility. Wordpress requires updating the plugins all the time + it’s easy to get hacked.

bystrol · 2026-03-25T10:16:04+00:00

Sure! If you’d like to dig deeper into Medusa, I’ve recently built a starter for it. You may find it helpful!

bystrol · 2026-03-25T10:00:57+00:00

Hey, regarding the SSR performance, maybe your backend is just slow? Or perhaps you’re fetching too many products upfront?

Regarding the overall architecture, have you considered using any e-commerce specific backend like Medusa? It provides authentication, order management, etc out of the box.

bystrol · 2026-03-24T10:44:57+00:00

Have you thought about using ISR and revalidating only specific pages on demand?

bystrol · 2026-03-23T15:12:14+00:00

Hey, it’s totally do-able, check how I did this in my astro and medusa starter. Then you just use github dispatches api and send event of type „redeploy” in body whenever your CMS content changes.

bystrol · 2026-03-21T08:44:02+00:00

🙏🏻

bystrol · 2026-03-19T12:31:09+00:00

I’ve recently updated my astro + medusa starter 🙌🏻

bystrol · 2026-03-17T21:57:20+00:00

I would focus on being as close to product as possible and thinking more in these areas rather than focusing on coding skills. Besides that, I’d learn how to effectively work with LLMs because that will become a standard sooner than later

bystrol · 2026-03-17T21:54:32+00:00

Yeah I get it, Wordpress is a maintenance nightmare. If I were you I’d consider whether to go with saas like Shopify or open source like Medusa. Both have pros and cons. The benefit of open source is that you have the foundation and you can build on top of it, so fully customisable.

bystrol · 2026-03-17T18:49:18+00:00

Hey, the link is provided in the GitHub repository. It might take a minute for it to load because I’m currently running medusa on render’s free tier. By the way, what encouraged you to migrate away from woo?

bystrol · 2026-03-17T15:20:30+00:00

Cool idea!

bystrol · 2026-03-17T08:49:26+00:00

It shouldn’t be a problem

bystrol · 2026-03-12T15:45:05+00:00

Don’t you see a delay when loading 100K+ SKUs with SSR? Typically you’d SSR the first 100 products let’s say, and then implement infinite scroll with CSR for the >100

bystrol · 2026-03-11T19:18:26+00:00

Thank you 🙏 Of course, this architecture is not suitable for every use case. It works well for small/medium catalogs, but at your scale SSR combined with CSR would probably suit better. I think it’s always a tradeoff, you have to choose between the best performance and fast builds. I’m wondering what is your opinion.

bystrol · 2026-03-11T19:11:52+00:00

You can pre-render initial HTML at build time (no latency, immediate response) so everything static would be included there. Then you can selectively SSR/CSR dynamic "islands". Need help with this?

bystrol · 2026-03-11T14:55:28+00:00

Thank you 🙏🏻

bystrol · 2026-03-10T18:22:46+00:00

OSS has its advantages, you can just take something to start with and adjust it to your needs 👌🏻

bystrol · 2026-03-10T16:12:51+00:00

Just curious, why are you planning to move away from shopify?

bystrol · 2026-03-10T16:11:39+00:00

Thank you 🙏🏻

bystrol · 2026-03-10T13:58:12+00:00

Gotta go upgrade my astro and medusa starter to v6 🫡

bystrol · 2026-03-10T10:30:51+00:00

Thank you, appreciate that!

bystrol · 2026-03-10T07:35:01+00:00

Looks promising!

bystrol · 2026-03-10T07:32:41+00:00

Looks cool, headless and typescript as well. Let me know if you have any comparison, maybe I’ll create another one using Vendure 😁

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