Hey anyone who reads this. :)
Hope life is good wherever you are.
Last couple of years I have been getting up to speed in a new role in an established ecom company.
My dev learning got stale because I lost interest in the subject matter and lots of debugging got a bit much when trying to learn new systems and process. I feel ready to pick it back up and I want to build an ecommerce website with Laravel and create applications to sync product, orders etc to multiple marketplaces. Can think of a more fun way to learn more.
Any thoughts on if this frameworks would be suitable? Cheers, Steve
Your question is so open that's difficult to answer. I can propose you to use the badaso package , it can be a good starting point and you'll have to dive into Laravel & Vue* to adpat it to your need.
*Vue2 now, but vue3 in project and probably good for education to follow the upgrade.
If your questions is "will that framework be able to do that job", the answer is yes. Take foodics as an example, and read themsaid tweet: https://twitter.com/themsaid/status/1524341701325828097
But if your questions is "will it be efficient using Laravel", that's on you, team, database design, hosting etc.
I tell you something that changed my world completely about eCommerces.
I used to think that an eCommerce was just there to sell products online, and it would be easy to build.
This was until I was called to fix issues on a platform like PrestaShop, my entire world changed. The eCommerce had multiple stores, stores had POS systems, the products were synched together. The stores had about 40 000 products and the cache was running on an enterprise litespeed server. The stores had synching capabilities to send dropship products to amazon and eBay, take the orders and sync back to the owner and warehouses. A lot of complex stuff going on for refunds, payments, and more. On the top of that, it was packed with modules, gateways, carriers, multiple languages and plenty of crazy gadgets.
This experienced changed my world totally about eCommerces. From that day I thought.....forget it, better I do not even try to build one because I will never be able to compete against top products out there.
So instead, the only thing I have built are my own little sites with gateways(mini eCommerces as I call them). But honestly, when you see what is out there.......it is scary.
If you need a basic eCommerce package to learn from, this one is running on Laravel. https://aimeos.org/laravel-ecommerce-package
Any thoughts on if this frameworks would be suitable?
@stevetait257 Yes, Laravel is suitable. Plenty of e-commerce projects and platforms have been built on Laravel. I worked on a massive one in my previous role.
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