Hi! I am trying to compare Shopify with Solidus. C...
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Hi! I am trying to compare Shopify with Solidus. Currently I am trying to compare architecture of both solutions. Where can I find documented architecture of Solidus?
First I would like to know components Solidus consists of 🙂
j
this isn't comparing equivalents
Shopify is a service, they host it
Solidus is more of a framework for building e-commerce sites on
it extends Ruby on Rails
( generally, I guess you could use it outside rails? never tried )
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You're basically comparing Wix to wordpress
p
Yes I am aware of having software as a service versus self hosting (Solidus).
I was asked to evaluate Shopify in terms of checkout extensibility and I found that Solidus is highly customizable in the area. That led me to thought: "If we could just have something that is OpeSource and pack it (eg helm) so that upon installing it in cluster we could have quickly basic ecommerce shop with the extensions capability then maybe I could suggest Solidus as alternative to Shopify"
if you write that it is rather
framework
then my undestanding is that having initial setup is very time consuming even if we could have some prepackaged installation ( containerized -> image -> helm chart)
j
you could build a thing that does what you described with Solidus
but the "out of the box" experience with solidus is more like a Lego kit than a whole toy.
p
in case I would be granted more time for investiagations I would try to set up Solidus in the packaged manner but for the prepration of setup, architecture diagrams seem to be very helpful.
anyway - thanks for your input @Jesse Raleigh!
c
@Paweł Kaliniak have you seen the guides pages https://guides.solidus.io/? I don't know that we have any architecture diagrams, as Solidus is a monolith Rails app, so most of the things you know about deploying Rails applications would apply here as well.
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But again, like @Jesse Raleigh mentioned, you are really comparing apples to oranges. I think it may be worth comparing the features of the two platforms provide OOTB rather than the architecture 🤔
j
^
p
( I will go back to the topic tomorrow - need to quit office )
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c
Sounds good, if you have any specific questions about the architecture I am sure people here would be happy to answer them simple smile