Use a ready-made solution for an online store on Laravel or write it yourself?

Question

Electronic commerce

Hello. There is a task to create a simple online store on Laravel (number of product names ~ 500). The exact dates are not defined (migration from the existing online store is planned, so there is a lot of time and you can not rush). I looked for ready-made solutions and found aimeos , looked and thought that the thing might be not bad, but for me it is clearly redundant. Of course, there is an approximate roadmap and the functionality of the online store will gradually expand, but still it will be gradual and why not write it all yourself.
I would like to hear opinions on this. Especially those who use aimeos.

Answer 1

And what is the task - to launch an online store or get practice in developing such solutions?

Answer 2

I don’t know about others, but for me personally it’s better, you know everything in your code and you can easily cram your functions into your code.

Answer 3

Consider laravel voyager option as admin panel and starting point
Very convenient and fast and minimum redundant things

Answer 4

If you are on Laravel, then you need to act in the same spirit.
Laravel is a framework, a general purpose framework, it is not "written" on; on such a framework they put on another, applied framework, on which a whole team has been working for several years, and Laravel-Aimeos is quite a worthy choice of an applied framework, and it remains only to configure and refine the missing functionality.
There is also Bagisto from India, but in Bagisto you will be stripped to the clock with very expensive plug-ins.
In the Laravel repository, out of 15,000 packages, there are many more e-commerce packages, convenient search with filtering and sorting.
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