gatsby-starter-shopify VS js-buy-sdk

Compare gatsby-starter-shopify vs js-buy-sdk and see what are their differences.

gatsby-starter-shopify

A Gatsby starter using the latest Shopify plugin showcasing a store with product overview, individual product pages, and a cart (by gatsbyjs)

js-buy-sdk

The JS Buy SDK is a lightweight library that allows you to build ecommerce into any website. It is based on Shopify's API and provides the ability to retrieve products and collections from your shop, add products to a cart, and checkout. (by Shopify)
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gatsby-starter-shopify js-buy-sdk
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306 959
1.6% 0.3%
0.0 5.7
over 1 year ago about 2 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
BSD Zero Clause License MIT License
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gatsby-starter-shopify

Posts with mentions or reviews of gatsby-starter-shopify. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-15.

js-buy-sdk

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  • Build an ecommerce app with Next.js and Shopify
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Jun 2022
    To do so, you will need the Shopify JavaScript Buy SDK, which you can get by installing the necessary package:
  • E-Commerce Stack Suggestions
    3 projects | /r/gatsbyjs | 27 Sep 2021
    To get you started with Shopify development: https://github.com/Shopify/js-buy-sdk
    3 projects | /r/gatsbyjs | 27 Sep 2021
  • Built a Shopify store with Next.js 😁
    4 projects | dev.to | 17 Aug 2021
    The JavaScript Buy SDK is an SDK for hitting the Store Front API. Basically, you can use this SDK for product information and cart operations, so I thought I'd use it entirely, but there were some problems. The SDK is only used for cart operations such as adding and deleting products, while the GraphQL client library (graphql-request) is used for retrieving product information and search functions on the product page, directly hitting the Store Front API. This is because, first of all, JS Buy SDK seems to have an old type definition of TypeScript, and the type information does not match the property that can actually be retrieved, and it is necessary to extend the type definition partially by oneself. This was the first time for me to extend the type definitions, so I learned a lot, but it was troublesome to determine which properties were typed and which were not. Also, the basic properties supported by the SDK are only a part of the information that can be retrieved by the Store Front API as described in the official documentation, and when I tried to extend the SDK, it seemed to be so cumbersome (for example, the collection page does not support sorting of products). (Sorting is achieved with the SDK like this) Therefore, I decided to use the SDK only for cart operations where the SDK is sufficient, extending the library's typedefs, and to define a custom client to directly access to the Store Front API for the rest.
  • Best Practice In GraphQL Queries
    3 projects | /r/shopify | 12 Jul 2021
    Hi, I'm just wondering, it seems that in the storefront-api-examples they use babel-plugin-graphql-js-client-transform to transform GraphQL queries into the format from js-buy-sdk (as far as I understand), but what's wrong with fetch('https://SHOP_NAME.myshopify.com/api/2021-07/graphql.json', {...}), is this somehow deprecated?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gatsby-starter-shopify and js-buy-sdk you can also consider the following projects:

storefront-api-examples - Example custom storefront applications built on Shopify's Storefront API

next-shopify-starter - Nextjs + Tailwind CSS + Shopify Starter

gatsby-plugin-apollo-client - 📡Inject a Shopify Apollo Client into the browser.

Shopify-api-node - Node Shopify connector sponsored by MONEI

shopify-theme-lab - Shopify theme development environment using Liquid, Vue and Tailwind CSS. Built on top of Shopify CLI 🧪

commerce - Next.js Commerce

shopify-packer - Modern development tool for Shopify using Webpack 5. Easy to extend and customize, zero build config, compatible with Slate and existing websites.

nextjs-shopify-store - Shopify Store by Next.js [Moved to: https://github.com/momonoki1990/nextjs-shopify-store]

babel-plugin-graphql-js-client-transform

Material UI - Ready-to-use foundational React components, free forever. It includes Material UI, which implements Google's Material Design.

nextjs-shopify-store - Shopify Store by Next.js