Ericson Smith

Is it possible to build an eCommerce website with Elixir and the Phoenix framework?

4 years ago

Yes, but why? This is mostly a solved problem already. Especially if you only have a small amount of SKU’s.

What I would do instead, is to use another engine, but then run Elixir software to enhance it. Example, provide newsletters, more detailed user behavior profiling.

Most eCommerce engines go the easy 85% of the way that would super-tedious to build. So why spend that 85% again.

The value in Amazon are things like:

  1. Recommendations
  2. Those emails that remind you to buy
  3. Affiliate marketing

Use Elixir/Phoenix to add it those parts instead.

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