What is the point of learning to build e-commerce websites when platforms like Shopify exist?

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  • e-shopee

    💳 Online shopping application and e-commerce trading platform.

    You can reference this repo https://github.com/thuongtruong1009/e-shopee

  • hydrogen

    Hydrogen lets you build faster headless storefronts in less time, on Shopify. (by Shopify)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • Sylius

    Open Source eCommerce Framework on Symfony

    All this being said, I would caution away from building an e-commerce from scratch. There are a few open-source headless e-commerce platforms that can serve as the perfect base for any e-commerce platform and would save countless hours of head banging solving a solved problem. Examples: https://saleor.io/ and https://sylius.com/. Spend your time on making your e-commerce site engaging and not on the mechanics of e-commerce.

  • Saleor

    Saleor Core: the high performance, composable, headless commerce API.

    All this being said, I would caution away from building an e-commerce from scratch. There are a few open-source headless e-commerce platforms that can serve as the perfect base for any e-commerce platform and would save countless hours of head banging solving a solved problem. Examples: https://saleor.io/ and https://sylius.com/. Spend your time on making your e-commerce site engaging and not on the mechanics of e-commerce.

  • HULL

    💀 Headless Shopify Starter – powered by Next.js + Sanity.io

  • InfluxDB

    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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