I played with Django a little bit a good couple of years ago and wanted to start out again. I created some pet projects to get into it again and I'm looking for a solid e-commerce framework to start some real projects.
I just started to do some research in my free time and came across quite a lot of projects. I manged to take a closer look at some and will continue to dig, but I hope some of you can share some opinions, experiences and tips on direction. My main resources so far have been `Stack Overflow`_, `Django Packages`_, some of the discussions in this group and of course standard search engines. While it seems that these kind of questions are not that well received on S.O., I still found a lot of info trough the other channels. The frameworks -------------- Right now I could need some help and pointers to narrow it down a bit. My focus is *easy of use* and *less boilerplate*. Not big and or complicate shops with lot's of settings and customization. I'm looking for a framework, that let's me set up *simple* shops fast. My main concern is to avoid boilerplate code for managing items, the shopping cart and check out / payment providers. Here's what I could find so far, hope to get some input from you - if you need more info on the kind and requirements on the future projects I plan to use it in, just ask. * Satchmo - http://www.satchmoproject.com/ + Probably the best known framework, might also be the one that's around the longest. - I came across mixed reactions to it. Mostly concerning difficulty of customization and lot's of SQL queries. - Seems not really lightweight and modular. Might be overkill? - The site seems to be under construction. Documentation is not accessible (``/docs/dev/ was not found on this server``). * Satchless - http://satchless.com/ * Nice focus: "Satchless brings e-commerce and Python together. It provides the low-level classes and patterns so you can focus on your business logic and user experience." - Library, not a framework. That is of course not bad at all, but just not what I'm looking for right now. I would like to look more into it in the future but right now I need an fast to setup framework. BTW: Is this used by *Satchmo*? * Saleor - http://getsaleor.com/ + Looks promising: "Lightweight, Performant, Customizable". + Based on their GitHub profile the creators seems to have lot of Django practice: https://github.com/mirumee - No demo, and no screen shots or anything. - No docs (just install instructions). Might be a good choice? Looks promising but missing docs is a huge minus. * Oscar - http://tangentlabs.github.io/django-oscar/ + Full fledged *extensible* Shop-Framework with a nice set of features already included (e.g. access control and hierarchy of customers). + Sandbox to play around with and Demo-Site. + Docs seemed neat: http://django-oscar.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ Would love to hear more about this one, any experiences to share? * Django Shop - https://www.django-cms.org/en/ + Documentation: http://django-shop.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ + From the people behind Django CMS. ? Don't know if it requires Django CMS tough. - Seems okay but might be a bit too simplistic for me? `Django CMS`_ seems quite popular. Sadly I haven't found much info on *Django Shop*. Any experiences? * Cartridge - http://cartridge.jupo.org/ + Framework build on Mezzanine. - Requires `Mezzanine CMS`_. WHile Mezzanine looks great, I don't want to depend on it or learn another framework, just for small shops, right now. ? Just out of curiosity: Is there something similar for `Wagtail`_? I came across some more but haven't found the time to look at them closely, some of the more outstanding ones where *Lightning Fast Shop* and *Plata*. That's what I got so far. What do you all think? .. _Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/ .. _Django Packages: https://www.djangopackages.com/ .. _Django CMS: https://www.django-cms.org .. _Mezzanine CMS: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/ .. _Wagtail: http://wagtail.io/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/12d8f630-7b81-484f-88be-168b929f012a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
