medusa-extender VS gatsby-starter-medusa

Medusa’s community plugin, Medusa Extender, provides multivendor support and full customization capabilities to create a custom ecommerce website.

In the previous parts of this series, you learned how to build a marketplace using Medusa and Medusa Extender. You associated users, products, and orders to a store.

Medusa is open-source project which provides many powerful e-commerce functions and extensions as Shopify. I follows the article for multi-vendor marketplaces shared from Shahed Nasser who is very outstanding engineer. But it only shows for backend modification with medusa-extender, not include the change of frontend side.

The Medusa server uses the method [buildQuery_](https://github.com/adrien2p/medusa-extender/releases/tag/v1.7.0) in OrderService to build the query necessary to retrieve the orders from the database. You’ll be overriding the OrderService, and particularly the buildQuery_ method to add a selector condition for the store_id if there is a currently logged-in user that has a store.

Medusa on steroid, take your medusa project to the next level with some badass features 🚀 The extender provides an out-of-the-box application architecture which allows developers and teams to create highly testable, scalable, loosely coupled, and easily maintainable applications. In also increase medusa extensibility and customisation for special use cases. It comes with handy decorators approach to increase the DX and full typings support for easier development. It is a complement to medusa but not a replacement 🚀

gatsby new medusa-gatsby https://github.com/medusajs/gatsby-starter-medusa

This tutorial uses the Gatsby starter to test the wishlist functionality added to the Medusa server. However, you can still follow along using a different storefront framework.

Last month, our team at Medusa built a new advanced Next.js storefront that can be used with a Medusa server. If interested in other Medusa starters, feel free to check out Medusa.Express or our Gatsby starter.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to add live-chat functionality to your ecommerce store using Medusa, Tidio live chat, and Gatsby Storefront.

Medusa provides two starter storefronts, one built using Next.js and one using Gatsby. You can also build your own storefront by interacting with the REST APIs.

The difficult part is for the modification of store frontend. I use Medusa Gatsby Starter to my store frontend. However, there are many incompatible with my above modification of backend.

git clone https://github.com/medusajs/gatsby-starter-medusa.git storefront

This creates a Gatsby website using the already-existing Medusa Gatsby starter.

It gives you full flexibility to build any type of frontend(s) you may prefer - Medusa has starters in Next.js or Gatsby to set up a high-performing storefront out-of-the-box so you have a good starting point before starting to customize it to your needs. You can check out a demo of the starer here.

GatsbyJS (much more feature-rich V2 coming soon)