Medusa Vs. Sylius: Which Should You Use for Your Ecommerce?

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  • Medusa

    Building blocks for digital commerce

  • Medusa is an open source ecommerce engine built with Node.js. It’s an API-first engine that allows you to build custom, flexible websites and applications. Medusa’s architecture includes three components: the headless server accessed via REST APIs, the admin dashboard, and the storefront. You can use it as a single entity or select the parts you need for your ecommerce store.

  • Sylius

    Open Source eCommerce Framework on Symfony

  • For the development of high-scaling applications and responsive websites, open source headless commerce architecture has become the go-to option in recent years because of its flexibility, scalability, and agility. However, choosing the best open source headless ecommerce platform can be challenging. To help you navigate this complex landscape, this article compares two popular open source solutions: Medusa and Sylius.

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  • Matomo

    Empowering People Ethically with the leading open source alternative to Google Analytics that gives you full control over your data. Matomo lets you easily collect data from websites & apps and visualise this data and extract insights. Privacy is built-in. Liberating Web Analytics. Star us on Github? +1. And we love Pull Requests!

  • Medusa, as of the moment of writing this article, does not provide any analytics or reporting on its admin dashboard. But you can integrate third-party services like Matomo and Segment for analytics purposes.

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