Best technologies to create a new e-commerce-ish website
I was just trying to create a website, an e-commerce one. What technology stack should I use to get it done quickly with a good design?
I've heard of Tailwind and few other tools, not sure what could fasten the development
& how do you guys deploy your product, by-product I mean your websites, a small brief walkthrough would really help.
My tech stack is: Spring Boot, React js, PostgreSQL
Thanks in advance!
Tbh if I was building an eCommerce site I would just offload it to Shopify or Big Cartel or something, just too much I wouldn't want to handle.
That said if you want a more hands on approach I just recently stumbled onto this: https://nextjs.org/commerce. Lets you still use Shopify (or whoever) for the important stuff but lets you use NextJs for building the actual site, and has a one click deploy so you can get started fast.
Great suggestions. I'll check it out, thanks!
I've played around a bit with Tailwind. Mostly (up until now) I've used Bootstrap. I've also recently played with Bulma. Overall, if you're a dab-hand at front-end design, you'll prefer Tailwind as it allows an infinite level of customization. But if you want something which looks good in a hurry, it's hard to beat Bootstrap. The down-side is your site will look a lot like everything else (although you can tweak it). Bulma is also "opinionated" and offers a different look and feel. In short, in terms of HTML/CSS, I'd go with Bootstrap.
Another option is to look at the pre-packaged Tailwind UIs and try to find something there. It's not free, but the standard is amazing. Going that route means you can find something close, and then tweak it. Then again, I find that my abysmal design skills get shown up for what they are, and even taking something prebuilt and tweaking it takes me far too much time when I'd prefer to work on the back-end.
Below that, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Ruby on Rails fan. But it sounds like your back-end is already sorted.
Bulma looks like a better bootstrap on first impressions. I'll definitely check out Tailwind. With 0 design experience, I want my website to look at good as it can be.
There are many headless technologies
I'm kind of new to these. So I was wondering if you had some suggestions, like a stack that you use or a stack that you wanted to use for your products, anything of that type will help!