Medusa

Well I felt like it (The WooCommerce of NextJS) is but I am not sure it really is so here I will be exploring about it, which is based on Postgres.

The world’s most flexible commerce platform

The most popular open-source platform for commerce. Use Medusa as your foundation and focus on building the customizations that move the needle.

Items Medusa provides:

1. Starters

2. Admin

3. Commerce Modules

4. Framework

5. Cloud

Documentation

NextJS Starter:

I went and started the project:

npx create-medusa-app@latest --with-nextjs-starter

This assumes that you have a Postgres database up and running.

Medusa server (Admin)

1. Initialize a new server:

npx create-medusa-app@latest --db-url "postgresql://neondb_owner:TOMbGz8sB@ep-young-lab-aak91.tus3.azure.neon.tech/neondb?sslmode=require"

So you need to add your database URL.

Here I have added a Neondb but it seems to take a lot of time while migrating!

Yes it is now seeding the database.

Medusa has created many tables, literally many tables!

After the database work is done:

• Medusa Admin will be up at http://localhost:9000/app/

Creds: atulya@raaj.com

This is so awesome!

my-medusa-store-storefront (Client)

• The Store Frontend will be available at http://localhost:8000/

Store:

- Products are loading

- Added to cart too

- Checking out

- Placed order

Admin:

- See order details

- Accepted Payment

- Stock Preview

- Delivery status

- Final

- Inventory (Just got reduced by 1)

- Customer view

- Customer order view

- Beautiful dark theme

Tech stack:

1. NextJS
2. Postgres
3. Redis
4. Vite

Overall Medusa is a good platform, I need to dig deep to get more details.

Getting started:

1. Installation guide: https://docs.medusajs.com/learn/installation

2. Install admin project

3. Create admin via UI or CLI :

npx medusa user -e admin@medusajs.com -p supersecret

4. Admin app consists of:

    "jest": "^29.7.0",
    "react": "^18.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^18.2.0",
    "typescript": "^5.6.2",
    "vite": "^5.2.11"

5. Project structure

6. Medusa’s Architecture

7. Running Medusa:

yarn dev

I thought there will be code here but here is only Readme files.

Useful:

1. Plugins
   • https://medusajs.com/plugins/medusa-payment-razorpay/