I'm curious if anyone here has experience with both Medusa and Vendure for building e-commerce sites. I'm particularly interested in their reliability and performance for a large online store that would have over 100,000 products. How do they compare in terms of speed, user experience, and overall functionality?
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I tried setting up an e-commerce site with Medusa.js, but the experience was pretty rough. We had a small team familiar with Node.js and React, but after less than two days, we switched to WooCommerce. The main issue was the server-side rendering with Next.js—it made the pages load slowly, and overall, the user experience was confusing. Since I'm a hosting provider, I remembered that Plesk works well with WordPress and WooCommerce. Once we moved over, the user experience improved drastically, and we got a functioning page up quickly. I'd recommend using Medusa mainly as a backend option for managing products and orders, but not the Next.js frontend. A React application that interfaces with the API might work better.
Honestly, it sounds like you might have hit a skill gap. Pre-rendering your store's pages can be straightforward and can really speed things up.
That's interesting! I already built my frontend using Node.js and Gulp, so I'm just looking for a solid backend solution.