Vue Storefront - PWA for eCommerce

Vue Storefront is a standalone PWA storefront for your eCommerce, possible to connect with any eCommerce backend (eg. Magento, Pimcore, Prestashop or Shopware) through the API.

Vue Storefront is and always will be in the open source. Anyone can use and support the project, we want it to be a tool for the improvement of the shopping experience. The project is in the production ready phase.

We are looking for Contributors and Designer willing to help us in the solution development.

See the ideas behind Vue Storefront here

See it in action

Try out our open demo and if you like it first give us some star on Github ★ and then contact us on Slack or via [email protected]

• Read on how to integrate it with Magento2, Read how to create Vue Storefront theme,
• Read the interviews with authors of first production deployments

Join the community on Slack

If you have any questions or ideas feel free to join our slack: https://vuestorefront.slack.com via invitation link

Roadmap

We are planning 1-2 milestones ahead. Our milestones are based on requirements from community, partners and production implementations. See the roadmap

Documentation + table of contents

The documentation is always THE HARDEST PART of each open source project! But we're trying hard. Please find out what we've already managed to prepare under /doc folder: https://github.com/DivanteLtd/vue-storefront/tree/master/doc

Installation

• Installing on Linux/MacOS
• Installing on Windows
• How to install and integrate with Magento2

Basics

• Project structure - good for introduction
• Contribution and issue reporting guideness
• Common problems / FAQ

Vue Storefront core and themes

• Working with themes
• Working with Vue Storefront core components
• Working with UI Store (interface state)
• Working with translations
• Working with Service Workers
• Working with Webpack
• Working with plugins
• [TEMPORARY] Core components and pages docs

Tutorial series on creating themes for Vue Storefront:

• Creating themes in Vue Storefront (part 1 — understanding Vue Storefront core)

WOrking with Vue Storefront Extensions

• Working with extensions
• Adding custom Server API methods

Data in Vue Storefront

• Working with data
• Working with Vuex
• ElasticSearch data formats
• Data Migrations for ElasticSearch
• ElasticSearch Queries

Integrations

• Vue Storefront + Magento
• Vue Storefront + Pimcore
• Direct prices sync with Magento
• How to connect 3rd party platform to Vue Storefront?

'Default theme' contribution rules

• Working with stylesheets (CSS)

The business challenges

Vue Storefront was created to solve a set of key business challenges from the world of shopping experience. Our goal for the application is to provide the solution with:

• The ultrafast front-end for the store - with the PWA approach we can now render the catalog of products within milliseconds;
• The endurance for traffic overloads on the store;
• The off-line shopping capabilities;
• The smooth shopping experience close to the user experience from the native mobile applications;
• The all-in-one front-end for desktop and mobile screens with no necessity for maintaining 3 or more applications for different touchpoints (web browser, Android, iOS etc.).
• Rapid development without architecture limitations.

The technology

Vue Storefront was built as an all-in-one front-end for eCommerce. For providing the best performance we decided to use Vue.js as a front-end library, Node.js + Express (and maybe GraphQL support) as a server-API, Elastic Search as a database of products and full PWA/off-line support. Here you can read more about the proof of concept for Vue Storefront connected with Magento2.

Besides a big improvement for the shopping experience, we also want to create a great code base for every developer who needs to work on a front-end application for the eCommerce.

The architecture

The design

The application is prepared to be fully customized in design through theming system. With the current version we work on raw, basic template of typical eCommerce for a fashion industry. In the project we used Material Icons.

Here you can read more about the process of designing PWA for eCommerce.

The design is available in open source in the Figma file format under the URL https://www.figma.com/file/VKyqbHFI55TKIKcQlFLiVpVF/Vue-Storefront-Open-Source.

Other platforms

Vue Storefront is platform agnostic which means it can be connected to virtually any CMS. Please take a look at Pimcore bridge to give you an idea on how other platforms can be connected. Any support for integrating Prestashop, Shopify ... - much appreciated.

The license

Vue Storefront source code is completely free and released under the MIT License.

Contributing

If you like the idea behind Vue Storefront and want to become a contributor - do not hesitate and check our list of the active issues or contact us directly via [email protected].

If you have discovered a 🐜 or have a feature suggestion, feel free to create an issue on Github.

Workshops

If you like our project and would like to learn more on how to create Progressive Web Apps you can ask us for dedicated workshop at your office! Conducted by Vue Storefront core contributors! All the profits are used for supporting Vue Storefront development. Learn more

Support us!

Vue Storefront is and always will be Open Source, released under MIT Licence.

Most of the core team members, VS contributors and contributors in the ecosystem do this open source work in their free time. If you use Vue Storefront for a serious task, and you'd like us to invest more time on it, you can donate the project! You can support us in various ways:

• Contribute - this is how the Core Team is supporting the project!
• Evangelize - tweet about us, take some speaking slot at tech conference etc.
• Sponsor - if you're doing serious business on VS maybe You would like to donate the project and put your logo in here?

This is how we will use the donations:

• Allow the core team to work on VS
• Thank contributors if they invested a large amount of time in contributing
• Support projects in the ecosystem that are of great value for users
• Infrastructure cost
• Fees for money handling

If you would like to support us please just let us know: [email protected]

Partners

Vue Storefront is a Community effort brought to You by our great Core Team and supported by the following companies.

If you like to become our Partner just let us know via [email protected].

The screenshots