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Headless commerce framework built on TypeScript and Node.js
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Scalability
high
Performance
high
Learning Curve
moderate
Maturity
stable
Languages: TypeScript
Architecture: headless, graphql
When to Use
- +TypeScript team
- +Custom requirements
- +Developer-first
When Not to Use
- -Non-technical
- -Need huge plugin ecosystem
Strengths
- TypeScript
- Modern stack
- Well architected
- Extensible
Weaknesses
- Smaller community
- Self-hosted
- Less plugins
Operations
Maintenance
medium
Monitoring
medium
Backup/Recovery
moderate
Hosting: self-hosted, cloud
Quick Facts
- Category
- e commerce
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- freemium (free tier)
- Community
- small
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- none
- Data Portability
- easy
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
startupsmallmedium
Use Cases
- Custom commerce
- Headless stores
- B2B commerce
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