👋 . New to Solidus. How does it compare to

Magento

? 🤔 .

There are a few ways to answer this question 😄 Are you looking for a feature parity comparison or what? For one the development experience with Solidus doesn’t suck 😄

Well to start, my mother loves Magento.

I think that’s basically it, if you want something that will work out of the box, with a pretty robust extension ecosystem Magento would fit the bill. If you want a platform you can build on and customize, rather than just use off-the-shelf pieces, you will have a better time with Solidus. I’ve worked on customizing Magento and building extensions for it, and it’s not a fun time.

Honestly, I think Magento doesn't make much sense these days. Just use Shopify and if you can't use Shopify, the Solidus community would be happy to help in #C0JBKDF35.

Thanks all for the response 👍 .

Have you vetted Shopify and BigCommerce?

Magento has this nice development workflow where local development changes can be exported to files and tracked it git. that way I dont have to mess with database sync. Does solidus support that ? 🤔

Yes

You should take into consideration your experience with the various languages/frameworks. If you have Ruby/Rails experience, then Solidus would be a clear choice. If you are a PHP programmer, then taking a more in-depth look at Magento may be a good idea.

Well I am aware. I come from Drupal(php) and have limited experience in Ruby. Rails is really nice though

where local development changes can be exported to files and tracked it git

Yes, you can use git to track ruby files just like anything else. You can use Heroku to push the files up and Heroku will automatically deploy everything for you.

Magento is going through a turmoil right now, with the whole Adobe situation. They have stopped innovating the product and are relying on their own microservices to deal with different functionality, works for them but the product development is basically halted. Coming from Drupal , magento codebase is a hot mess tbh.

I used Heroku a lot when I was a junior. It's fantastic. Rails is more advanced than general PHP coding. If you know PHP and want a framework, I would recommend Laravel and look for an ecommerce framework for it.

Bigcommerce is great. But as I said , customisation is a huge requirement for this project. I am also looking to try Rails, its not totally new to me, so I might be productive . Its gonna take longer but I appreciate things that work

What's the customization?

Its a custom garden and tooling website, People can customise their flower pots for example, with plants , watch them in AR. etc etc

Neat, I might buy something then.

If you are looking for something you can customize heavily and are happy to learn a new platform Solidus is a good fit for that. The development experience with Ruby/Rails you will get is imho better than you would with PHP.

If you need that level of customization, here's essentially how I learned Rails: I did everything to spec, let everything take longer than it should have, and had... 100% test coverage. Rubocop was also useful as well to help find bad habits that I just generally agreed with until I knew better. If this is a side project and you are not required to get it to market ASAP, then this might be the right direction for you. Rails is the granddaddy of so many framework standards. You will see where a lot of things came from.

My need is just that I want to setup a robust CI/CD pipeline and track every change in git. Drupal as I said does that, and I am spoilt by that. Every change via the UI or the cli in the dashboard, basically everything that is not content is tracked in git. And using a build system on AWS deployed to a production system.

Build the todo app for Ruby on Rails and see how you feel and then go build your store. I would use Heroku to start (the main seed for Solidus includes all the states over the world, Heroku has a 10k row limit. You'll want to include on the states of countries you're importing. I'm going to let you figure the code part out because learning).

Magento has this as well. But the project seems broken in so many ways. I am not also sure I need all the extra enterprise features they have. its just too much

spoilt

Dude, that's the base minimum.

wordpress does not have that, woocommerce is 30% of ecom market. I feel guilty (and dangerous) doing changes on production databases

I'm not even going to talk about how many production databases I've taken down.

I use whatever the project uses. more inclined towards sql and mysql in general

Rails is mainly PostgreSQL

Is there any doc on the config export to files , and CI/CD setup with Solidus ? 🤔

Urgh, like any getting started guide with whatever CI/CD you use.

this though ‘doc on the config export to files’

This is fairly advanced for you but: https://gist.github.com/BenMorganIO/7b0f8a901680cfcc847227c527ece631

So this is basically what I am looking for.

1.

sync my git

2.

Use the dependency manager to build the project files

3

. Set up a new local database which is same as my production one without the content, every setting is in git coz thats what I use to deploy to production.

4.

Install some sample data on the database to work on the project.

5.

make the required changes, to code and config, like store location or other store settings(usually these changes are stored in the database with other project, like

wp-options

table in wordpress).

6

when everything is done I would like to export every database change to files, drupal exports them in yml, magengo can do it in json or yml and then track them with git.

7.

Push the files to a build system which deploys everything to a staging server with a copy of the production database.

8

testing happens here, automated and manual.

1. Github 2. bundler 3.

bin/rails db:setup

4.

bin/rails db:seed

included in the setup command 5.

<http://localhost:3000/admin>

or you could store this in a config file 6.

bin/rails db:migrate

already exports everything to a schema.rb, but you can have it export to a .sql file. 7. Heroku and this might be fairly advanced for you 8. RSpec or Minitest and CI of your choice 9. Heroku

I use Beanstalk on AWS for drupal projects, it supports Ruby

I think I've used that before. I just deploy with Ansible these days.