Reaction Commerce
Reaction Commerce
An API-first, headless commerce platform on Node.js and GraphQL, now continued under the name Mailchimp Open Commerce.
Reaction Commerce is a headless e-commerce platform: it supplies the catalogue, cart, checkout, orders and payments logic through a GraphQL API, and leaves the storefront entirely up to you. That separation lets a team build a custom shopping experience in React, mobile or anywhere else, while reusing a solid commerce back end.
Project status
The repository now carries a notice that the original project has been discontinued, with the commerce platform continuing as Mailchimp Open Commerce. It remains a useful reference codebase and is still released under the GPL, but anyone planning a new build should review its maintenance state first.
- Product catalogue, tags and inventory handling
- Cart, checkout and order workflows via GraphQL
- Plugin architecture for payments, shipping and taxes
- Container-based deployment with Docker and Kubernetes
It was designed for developers who wanted a modern JavaScript alternative to monolithic hosted shop builders.
Key Features
- Headless, API-first commerce engine
- GraphQL API for catalogue, cart, checkout and orders
- Plugin system for payments, shipping and taxes
- Node.js and React based
- Docker and Kubernetes deployment
- GPL-3.0 licensed
- Original project discontinued; continued as Mailchimp Open Commerce
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, Reaction Commerce is open source. It is released under the GPL-3.0 license.
You can use Reaction Commerce as a free, open-source alternative to Shopify.
Yes, Reaction Commerce can be self-hosted on your own server or cloud infrastructure.
It is built using JavaScript, Dockerfile, HTML, Shell, CSS.
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