I believe when you say framework you're referring to CMS with e-commerce. I in same dilemma recently and settled on Mezzanine + cartridge. When you install it it comes with a functioning cart and everything you need to get ahead early. It has good docs and it's just Django without much magic in it. I'd give that one another look. On 15/04/2014 11:18 pm, "Brutus Schraiber" <brutus....@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I played with Django a little bit a good couple of years ago and wanted to > start out again. I created some pet projects to get into it again and I'm > looking > for a solid e-commerce framework to start some real projects. > > I just started to do some research in my free time and came across quite a > lot > of projects. I manged to take a closer look at some and will continue to > dig, > but I hope some of you can share some opinions, experiences and tips on > direction. > > My main resources so far have been `Stack Overflow`_, `Django Packages`_, > some > of the discussions in this group and of course standard search engines. > While > it seems that these kind of questions are not that well received on S.O., I > still found a lot of info trough the other channels. > > > The frameworks > -------------- > > Right now I could need some help and pointers to narrow it down a bit. > > My focus is *easy of use* and *less boilerplate*. Not big and or complicate > shops with lot's of settings and customization. > > I'm looking for a framework, that let's me set up *simple* shops fast. My > main > concern is to avoid boilerplate code for managing items, the shopping cart > and > check out / payment providers. > > Here's what I could find so far, hope to get some input from you - if you > need > more info on the kind and requirements on the future projects I plan to > use it > in, just ask. > > > * Satchmo - http://www.satchmoproject.com/ > > + Probably the best known framework, might also be the one that's around > the longest. > > - I came across mixed reactions to it. Mostly concerning difficulty of > customization and lot's of SQL queries. > > - Seems not really lightweight and modular. Might be overkill? > > - The site seems to be under construction. Documentation is not > accessible > (``/docs/dev/ was not found on this server``). > > > * Satchless - http://satchless.com/ > > * Nice focus: "Satchless brings e-commerce and Python together. It > provides > the low-level classes and patterns so you can focus on your business > logic > and user experience." > > - Library, not a framework. That is of course not bad at all, but just > not > what I'm looking for right now. > > I would like to look more into it in the future but right now I need an > fast to setup framework. BTW: Is this used by *Satchmo*? > > > * Saleor - http://getsaleor.com/ > > + Looks promising: "Lightweight, Performant, Customizable". > > + Based on their GitHub profile the creators seems to have lot of Django > practice: https://github.com/mirumee > > - No demo, and no screen shots or anything. > > - No docs (just install instructions). > > Might be a good choice? Looks promising but missing docs is a huge minus. > > > * Oscar - http://tangentlabs.github.io/django-oscar/ > > + Full fledged *extensible* Shop-Framework with a nice set of features > already included (e.g. access control and hierarchy of customers). > > + Sandbox to play around with and Demo-Site. > > + Docs seemed neat: http://django-oscar.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ > > Would love to hear more about this one, any experiences to share? > > > * Django Shop - https://www.django-cms.org/en/ > > + Documentation: http://django-shop.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ > > + From the people behind Django CMS. > > ? Don't know if it requires Django CMS tough. > > - Seems okay but might be a bit too simplistic for me? > > `Django CMS`_ seems quite popular. Sadly I haven't found much info on > *Django Shop*. Any experiences? > > > * Cartridge - http://cartridge.jupo.org/ > > + Framework build on Mezzanine. > > - Requires `Mezzanine CMS`_. WHile Mezzanine looks great, I don't want to > depend on it or learn another framework, just for small shops, right > now. > > ? Just out of curiosity: Is there something similar for `Wagtail`_? > > I came across some more but haven't found the time to look at them closely, > some of the more outstanding ones where *Lightning Fast Shop* and *Plata*. > > > That's what I got so far. What do you all think? > > > .. _Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/ > .. _Django Packages: https://www.djangopackages.com/ > .. _Django CMS: https://www.django-cms.org > .. _Mezzanine CMS: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/ > .. _Wagtail: http://wagtail.io/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/12d8f630-7b81-484f-88be-168b929f012a%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/12d8f630-7b81-484f-88be-168b929f012a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. 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