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Comment by dubcanada | Hacker News Reader

My biggest problem is there is zero discussion on why this is better/worse then the other 500 options available.

WooCommerce, Craft Commerce, Drupal Commerce, Magento, Vendura, etc all offer APIs to build a headless ecommerce platform.

Why is this better/worse?

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I mean right off the bat it means not having to maintain WordPress, Craft, Drupal, Magento. I've maintained all of those at some point over the years and I'll probably have nightmares tonight now that you reminded me of them. Don't know Vendura.

Isn't it just a matter of time until this one also becomes hard to maintain? These other platforms are complicated for a reason and that is that ecommerce isn't easy. Localizations (Medusa doesn't seem to have a proper system for that yet according to the top comment), deep support for taxes in various countries, changing tax rates, b2b and b2c price rates etc.

I'm sure it could become hard to maintain, but it is built as an ecommerce platform. Plugins like Woocommerce are just one of innumerable amounts of plugins that WordPress has to attempt to not break.

I was more referring to the dedicated and feature rich frameworks like Drupal and Magento than the WordPress plug-ins.

at the mere utterance of "Magento" thousands of souls to cry out in terror

Also OpenCart. I've had nightmares about that too, although it is just a shopping cart.

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