
A Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Deploy a Medusa Server on AWS
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When you create your ecommerce store, you’ll often find that you need to use additional tools to add more features. These can include features related to analytics, search engines, and content management systems (CMS), among other features.
There are many commercial tools that can provide these features. However, open source tools provide you with more flexibility in integrating these features into your store at lower costs.
In this article, I will present to you 8 open source tools that you can use to create or add features to your ecommerce store.
Open source allows developers to share code for everyone to use and customize based on their needs. Open source ecommerce software has a lot of advantages including:
Medusa is a open source ecommerce software built with customization in mind giving both developers and merchants freedom in creating their solutions.
Medusa has many features and advantages including:
There are much more features that Medusa also provides. If you want to create an ecommerce store that can be modified based on your business needs and supports a lot of modern features including omnichannel support, then Medusa is a great choice for you and you can create and deploy your store all for free.
To get started check out the Quickstart guide to create your Medusa server in minutes.
You can also join the Medusa community on Discord if you need any help where you’ll get assistance from fellow community members as well as the team behind Medusa.
Oddo is an open source ecommerce software focusing on handling company needs such as Customer Relationship Management(CRM), accounting, inventory management, project management, and much more.
Oddo has a huge set of features including:
Like every open source company, Oddo has a community where users can ask the community questions and get help.
You can get started with Odoo here.
Strapi is a open source ecommerce software, more precisely a headless Content Management System (CMS) with full customizability in its content models. By adding it to your ecommerce stack, you can provide your ecommerce store with rich CMS features.
Strapi has lots of fantastic features including:
In addition, if you are using Medusa as your ecommerce platform, you can check out the ready-to-use plugin which includes many features such as content synchronization with Strapi.
Strapi is an open source company built by developers for the developer, and they have a fantastic community that any developer can join if they wish to know more about Strapi or contribute.
You can get started with Strapi here.
Vue storefront is an open source ecommerce software that provides a storefront for ecommerce platforms. Although it integrates with many monolithic platforms, it is made specifically for headless commerce platforms.
Vue storefront has lots of features which include:
Vue Storefront has the fastest-growing open source community. You can get assistance from other community members as well as rest assured that Vue Storefront is being tested by many developers globally.
You can get started with Vue Storefront here.
Matomo is an open source analytics tool that gives users the freedom to study the analytics of their websites, specifically in this case their ecommerce websites.
Matomo’s features include:
Matomo has a supportive community where you can ask questions if you need help.
You can get started with Matomo here.
Meilisearch is an open source search engine that adds highly performant search engines to any website or app, including ecommerce stores.
Meilisearch has unique features such as:
If you are using Medusa as your ecommerce platform, you can use the ready-to-use Meilisearch plugin.
Meilisearch has an active open source community on Slack where developers can ask questions and get help on issues.
You can get started with Meilisearch here.
Rocket.chat is an open source ecommerce software that you can use to add chat functionalities in your websites. Particularly for ecommerce, with rocket.chat you can have a real-time conversation with your viewers and buyers on your ecommerce store.
Rocket.chat has many features including:
Rocket.chat’s open source community is hosted on a Rocket.chat app where you can join and become a part of it.
You can get started with Rocket.chat here.
MinIO is an open source file storage that is available on every cloud. It lets you store files such as videos, documents, and pictures.
MinIO has many features including:
If you are using Medusa as your ecommerce platform, you can easily integrate MinIO with a ready-made plugin.
Like every open source software, MinIO has a community on Slack where you can contact the team and ask them as well as the rest of the community for help.
You can get started with MinIO here.
Open source ecommerce software provide you with flexibility when adding features to your store. There are many more open source tools that were not featured on this list but still can enrich your ecommerce store with more features.
Medusa is an open source headless commerce which aims to provide a good developer experience. If you want to get started with Medusa, check out the quickstart guide to easily get your store up and running.
Should you have any issues or questions related to Medusa, then feel free to reach out to the Medusa team via Discord.
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