Svelte Commerce
Opensource ecommerce frontend for Medusa, Woocommerce
TL;DR: Created a performant, open-source e-commerce frontend using SvelteKit that works with multiple backends, including our own Litekart platform.
The Story: After experiencing the bloat and complexity of existing e-commerce solutions, I built Svelte Commerce to provide a lightweight, modern alternative. Starting with Litekart integration, we've expanded to support multiple backends while maintaining a focus on performance and developer experience.
Tech Stack:
Frontend: SvelteKit, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
Build Tools: Vite
Deployment: Vercel, Docker
Backend: Litekart (with free tier), Medusa, and more
Business Model:
Open core (MIT licensed)
Premium themes and templates
Custom development services
Enterprise support
Current Stats:
1k+ GitHub stars
Growing community
Multiple production deployments
Key Achievements:
Created a performant alternative to commercial solutions
Built a thriving open-source community
Integrated with multiple e-commerce backends
Svelte Commerce have just reached the 1000th star milestone on GitHub, and it is the perfect opportunity to thank you for your support! 💪
We will use this milestone to recap Svelte Commerce’s growth and other important milestones since it began as an experimental project in 2019...
Still haven't try Svelte Commerce? What are you waiting for!
Even though tracking the success of an open-source project is known to be a hard problem, we have a few metrics available to us
Svelte Commerce Star History
Greatest moments timeline:
October 2019 : First Commit
August 2021 : First Contributor
December 2022: Sveltekit 1.0
April 2023 : Svelte Commerce released
April 2023 : First 1000 stars in the Svelte Commerce repository on Github... 3,02,188 lines of code written, 100 liters of coffee consumed
Thank you to everyone in the community
Thank you to our entire Svelte Commerce developer community for helping the project reach this amazing milestone! To all of those who have helped the project reach this stage of its evolution. Thank you to all of you who continue to help us as we move the project forward and as we look to build our community further. We want to thank our community for being part of the Svelte Commerce adventure, with a special mention for some contributors such as Pratap Maharana, Deepjyoti Barman, Ashok, Jycouet, Seanogor. It is good to know that there is a group of early adopters who like what we are doing at Svelte Commerce.
We will stay committed to the open-source community and ensure the highest level of quality and transparency. With that in mind, we look forward to all contributions to our project. If you have any questions, we have a Discord server to chat with you. We count on you to keep making our Github stars rising... So help us reach 5,000 stars next!
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