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This page reflects our views and assessments. All information is sourced from publicly available information and does not represent the vendor’s official position.

OS licenseCodeRepositoryStars
GPL-3.0Node.jsvendure-ecommerce/vendure~5,7k
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We recorded an interview podcast with David Höck, one of the makers of Vendure. You can listen to this episode on Spotify or read the summary here.

Evaluation

⭐ Highlights

  • Clean, modular codebase built on popular frameworks
  • Lightweight framework for rapid development

👍 When to use

  • Startups outgrowing Shopify, needing code-level adjustments
  • Developer-driven teams

👎 When to avoid

  • Projects with extensive requirements and marketplaces
  • Companies needing contractual agreements, compliance, or high-level support
  • Projects requiring vendor-managed hosting

Functionality

As a headless system that functions more like a framework, you may need to complete or customize certain features to fit your specific needs.

B2C

Vendure comes with all essential features for B2C use cases.

B2B

Although its B2B feature set is not fully developed, Vendure is still frequently used for B2B scenarios because of its simple architecture and ease of development.

Marketplace

Vendure's multi-channel capability prepares the system for marketplace scenarios, however it doesn't ship with a dedicated merchant portal.


Development approach

Technology Stack

Vendure is fully built with TypeScript and utilizes the following technologies:

  • NestJS as the underlying Node.js framework
  • TypeORM for interacting with any database
  • Angular for rendering the Admin UI
  • GraphQL for API communication
Technology Stack

Starter kits (demo shops)

Projects can choose to build their storefront on any technology or use one of the existing templates (starters) using different frameworks.

Vendure Starter Kits

Architecture

Vendure is a server-side application ("server") that provides two API endpoints: one for the storefront and one for the Admin UI.

As a headless platform, Vendure leaves storefront development to the developers, who can either build it from scratch or use one of the available templates (see demo shops above).

💡 The GraphQL API has a public playground: https://readonlydemo.vendure.io/shop-api

Vendure Architecture

Admin UI

Vendure comes with an Admin UI built on Angular, which can be customized at the code level.

You can try it out without local installation here: https://demo.vendure.io/

Vendure Admin UI

Hosting options

Vendure does not currently offer managed hosting, but provides deployment instructions for platforms like Render, Google Cloud Run, and others. 🌐


Case Studies

All information is based on public sources and manually curated. Projects that are completely hidden from the public are excluded. Contact us to contribute contact@roq.tech

CompanyShop URLIndustryType
Swilehttps://www.swile.co/PaymentsB2C
Paket Markethttps://paket.mk/Online GroceriesB2C Marketplace
Deesuphttps://www.deesup.com/Design FurnitureB2C Marketplace
Breitling Chinahttps://www.breitling.cn/Luxury WatchesB2C
Wristcheckhttps://wristcheck.com/Luxury Watch TradingB2C Marketplace
Faininhttps://fainin.com/Sharing EconomyMarketplace
Stocker Kaminsystemehttps://www.stocker-kaminsysteme.com/Chimney Systems ManufacturingB2B
Weidebeef.athttps://www.weidebeef.at/Organic FarmingB2C