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Best Shopify Alternatives for Small Businesses and Growing Brands

- BigCommerce, Magento 2, Shopify, Shopware

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Below, we’d like to draw your attention to some notable Shopify alternatives. While Shopify is often touted as a go-to platform for online stores, it’s not always the perfect match for every business. Beneath the intuitive Shopify admin, sleek interface, and extensive app ecosystem lie limitations that may push merchants to explore alternatives to Shopify.

We’ll guide you through a carefully curated selection of e-commerce platforms and help you determine which one best suits your business needs. Along the way, we’ll also introduce you to the challenges you might face when transitioning from Shopify to one of its alternatives — and provide practical solutions to overcome them. By the end, you’ll have a clear understanding of whether making the switch is worth it for your business. But first, let’s delve into the key reasons why many merchants consider leaving the Shopify ecosystem. Continue Reading

Node.js (Best CMS, E-Commerce systems, and Open Source projects)

- E-Commerce, Fire development, Node.js

Node.js tutorial

Our Node.js tutorial includes all the important information about this runtime environment. It provides both theory and practical examples. Being an open source project, Node.js is developed to work on different platforms designed for server-side and networking apps. Talking about Node.js modules, we should mention that they are written in JavaScript. In their turn, Node.js apps can be run within the aforementioned runtime on such platforms as Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, NonStop, FreeBSD, and IBM i. Thanks to a non-blocking I/O API and an event-driven architecture, Node.js optimizes throughput and scalability of applications (often real-time web apps). It uses V8 JavaScript engine by Google for the code execution. Last but not least is an embedded library that allows apps to act as a Web server without Apache HTTP Server, IIS, or other similar software. Microsoft, Walmart, Yahoo!, Groupon, LinkedIn, PayPal are among prominent users of Node.js. But why do they use it? What is the main purpose of Node.js and what are the advantages?

The Ultimate Node.js Tutorial

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