Youcefi Mohammed Yassine
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Im building a ecommerce using react for dashboard and flask for the storefront . Can i create a CMS with this architecture?
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Short answer: Yes
Long Answer: It depends.
Depends on the complexity, required performance, dev effort required, budget etc....
Can you give me some sources to get ideas please ?
I'm using docker and self hosting with nginex in ovh .
What kind of sources may I ask ?
To help with setting up frontend use Netlify or Verge
For backend use Docker with Aws ECS or EKS as they offer free limited resources for 1 year and you can build the system within that timeframe
The question you are asking is too broad so could you please either narrow it down or list out all the things you are looking for and I'll add those appropriate resources
So im already deployed my dashboard on ovh as well as my storefront.
currently i want to add theme customization.
default users have a basic theme, then they will be able to personalise it
for the code mirroring have you some ideas ?
I wanna understand what you are trying to build before recommending solution's. So are you trying to build next Shopify?
Yes I'm building next shopify and have some problems on the cms :
Shopify has mainly 3 components:
Admin panel
CMS
Storefront
And all of these are connected through APIs
CMS enables you to build Storefront with option to edit themes and Admin panel helps to manage the data that flows through the entire app.
Basically there are two types of data at play here
Irrespective of the Front or Backend languages it is possible to do it. Try the below article it should give you some ideas : developers.bloomreach.com/blog/201...
People tell you to store html in database but I don't agree with that. On contrary you could store theme related data like font, logo, header size etc and generate a theme. Then use a generic theme builder to spit out html files whenever required.
Passing data for real time rendering comes from API from different database other than theme related data.
But may I ask why you are trying to solve an already solved problem ? Is it for learning or for monetisation?
Thanks for your answer, the insight you have given me is way more valuable than you can imagine ! I am trying to learn how Shopify operates and maybe get to build an alternative for my country (where payment methods like VISA , MasterCard .. etc are not a thing). Currently, I set up a JSON where snippets have a certain order and when I post to my flask environment with another order, the order changes. What could you recommend to modify the style with ease with a flask/jinja environment ? I will look further more on using a generic theme builder with the related data you told me about, thanks again !