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[marcocastignoli]

Request @marcocastignoli

Hello vuestorefront team! 

I’m the founder of the open-source and non-profit Nile project, we are very interested to collaborate with this cool project! Nile aims to provide a free, decentralized shopping platform for local economies without any kind of fees or commission. To build such a platform, we need partnerships that provide us with the best possible solution in each area. We see great potential to use your project as our frontend application. Do you have an interest in any kind of collaboration? Thanks for your time! Learn more about Nile here https://nile.shopping 

Response @pkarw (Core Team)

Hi @marcocastignoli - it sounds like really interesting project; two years ago I was working for a marketaplce project in Egypt and by this time i had pretty similar idea of creating ope nsource platform for devloping markets however couldn’t have spent as much time on it as i wanted. And now it’s the second chance I guess :smile:
Let us know how can we help Yo

[huhn511]

We should have an answer to these questions to solve this issue:

1. Can we use "vue-storefront" for the Nile native shop frontend application?
2. How is the shop connected with Nile? (Architecture structure)
3. Do we need to make engaging changes to the "vue-storefront" repository?

[huhn511]

Also, we need to discuss if we need that: REST API backend for vue-storefront

This is a backend service for vue-storefront. Provides data access to product catalog (via ElasticSearch) and allows users to place orders into order queue (by default it's Redis queue supported via kqueue library).

[marcocastignoli]

Also, we need to discuss if we need that: REST API backend for vue-storefront

This is a backend service for vue-storefront. Provides data access to product catalog (via ElasticSearch) and allows users to place orders into order queue (by default it's Redis queue supported via kqueue library).

You mean using it, so we don't have to implement the whole store code?

[huhn511]

Correct!
We need to know, which parts of a modern shopping application do we need. And figure out which of those we have to build and which parts we can use from other open source projects.

Don't reinvent the wheel, just build the car ;)