This article presents a simple eCommerce starter powered by Stripe, FastAPI (for the backend logic), and Bootstrap 5 (for styling). The goal of this starter is to help programmers bootstrap fast a decent and secure eCommerce solution with minimal effort. Being open-source and released under the MIT license, the codebase can be easily extended, incorporated in commercial projects, or used in eLearning activities.
A strong point of this project is the UI Kit provided by Creative-Tim, a well-known agency, that released the design for free. Soft UI Design, comes with 50+ components and reusable widgets for at least a decent eCommerce project.
β¨ Product Highlights
This mini eCommerce loads the products from JSON files saved in the templates directory and build dynamic pages based on this minimal information.
The minimal information required for a product definition can be found below:
{"name":"Air ZOOM Pegasus","price":499,"currency":"usd","short_description":"A workhorse built to help ..(truncated)..","full_description":"A workhorse built to help power ..(truncated).."}
Open-source mini eCommerce project that loads the products from JSON files saved in the templates directory (no database required) and uses a decent UI for page styling - Powered by FastAPI & Stripe.
If your workstation has Docker installed, the product can be started via a single command typed in the terminal (make sure you're at the root of the sources).
$ docker-compose up --build
Once this command finishes the execution, the app should be up & running in the browser.
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