Review: Saleor vs Medusa Two Opensource Headless Ecommerce Platforms

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  • Saleor

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

  • Saleor, based on Python and Django, brings the power of python to the open-source ecommerce world. Saleor is positioned as an alternative to Magento 2, With Adobe sunsetting Magento 1, and store owners facing the expensive prospective of moving to Magento 2, Saleor claims to be equally good if not better, and relatively inexpensive. Saleor,is another popular open-source headless commerce stack that promises to keep developers in focus, by open-sourcing everything using standard frameworks like GraphQl, Next.js etc. . Mirumee software maintains the Saleor stack and is available on Gitter for support and questions. On the second of March 2022, they released version 3.1.2.

  • medusa-starter-contentful

    A Medusa starter that works with Contentful

  • In addition, Medusa has well-documented integration guides for headless open-source CMS like Strapi and Contentful. In fact, Medusa comes with a storefront that has Contentful CMS preinstalled, where all content is synced between the Medusa server and Contentful

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  • docker-medusa

    This repo is managed by the Medusa Community. Medusa does not provide official support for Docker, but we will accept fixes and documentation. Use at your own risk.

  • Medusa supports docker containers for production deployments. You can check it out here. So it is pretty much a plug, play and deploy. It allows you to deploy your Medusa backend which contains all the logic, the storefront, and the admin panel all at once.

  • meilisearch-js

    JavaScript client for the Meilisearch API

  • Medusa allows you to integrate any search engine of your choice into the platform. It already integrates with search systems like Meilisearch or Algolia to provide an intuitive search experience for the customers.

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