Get started with Medusa Part 2: Make the Server Your Own

• Medusa

  220 23,110 9.9 TypeScript

  Building blocks for digital commerce

  

In the first part of this tutorial series, I compared Medusa and Shopify to showcase how Medusa is the open-source alternative to Shopify. Where Shopify lacks when it comes to its pricing plans, minimal customization abilities, and inability to fit for every business use case, Medusa can compensate for it.

• postman-app-support

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  Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.

  

Let us test it out. You can access this endpoint at localhost:9000/store/top-products. As this is a GET request, you can do it from your browser or using a client like Postman or Thunder Client.

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• medusa-store-tutorial

  2 4 0.0 JavaScript

  Code for Medusa Store Tutorial

Try to add a new product from the admin panel or use the database in the GitHub repository of this tutorial, which has an additional product. Then, try to make more orders with that product. You will see that the sorting in the endpoint has changed based on the number of sales.

• Redis

  320 64,962 9.7 C

  Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

  

In addition, you need to have Redis installed and running on your machine to be able to use subscribers. So, if you do not have it installed and you want to follow along with the tutorial you should go ahead and install it.

• Express

  680 63,886 8.3 JavaScript

  Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.

  

Creating an endpoint is easy. You just need to export an Express Router. This router can hold as many routes as you want.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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