Daffodil
Angular Ecommerce PWA Framework
Overview
Daffodil is an innovative frontend Ecommerce framework designed to streamline the development process for creating complex Ecommerce stores. It stands out by enhancing developer workflows, ensuring tool consistency across various platforms, and improving the overall user experience for online shopping. With its open-source and platform-agnostic features, Daffodil serves as a valuable tool for developers looking to elevate their projects.
Whether you’re starting a new Ecommerce site or enhancing an existing one, Daffodil provides the toolkit to help you deliver high-quality, performant web applications. The framework is particularly appealing for developers familiar with Angular and those interested in Progressive Web Apps, offering ample resources for smooth implementation.
Features
- Forever Free, Open Source: Daffodil is licensed under MIT, ensuring that developers can use it without any cost and with the freedom to modify it.
- Platform Agnostic Drivers: Compatible with key platforms like Shopify and Magento 2, allowing flexibility depending on business needs.
- Lightning Fast Iteration: Prebuilt components enable quick testing and concepting, speeding up the development process.
- Decoupled and Composable Packages: Customizable packages like Product, Cart, and Checkout are tailored to meet specific use cases.
- Well Documented: Comprehensive tutorials, implementation examples, and API references support developers in overcoming challenges during development.
- Themeable and Accessible: Daffodil focuses on user experience, providing accessibility features while allowing for extensive theming options.
- Supports Server-side Rendering: Great for performance optimization and ensuring a better first-load experience for end-users.
- Well Tested with Fantastic Performance: Rigorous testing ensures reliability while maintaining impressive performance metrics, even on older browsers like IE 11+.
- Angular
Angular is a TypeScript-based open-source framework by Google for building dynamic single-page applications and cross-platform mobile apps with MVC architecture and a rich set of features.
- Express
Express.js is a simple Node.js framework for single, multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
- Ecommerce
Ecommerce websites sell products or services to customers through an online storefront. These websites typically include features such as product listings, shopping carts, payment processing, and order management tools.
- Apollo
Apollo is an open-source platform for building GraphQL APIs that connects with any data source. It provides a powerful set of tools and features for developers, including client and server-side caching, real-time data synchronization, and a seamless integration with popular frontend frameworks.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Graphql
A website that uses GraphQL as a query language to manage data fetching and state management. This includes features such as a strongly typed schema, client-side caching, and declarative data fetching to streamline data management and optimize website performance.
- Gulp
Gulp.js is an old but popular site building tool that automates various repetitive development tasks in web development, such as compiling Sass, minifying JavaScript, and optimizing images.
- Pwa
A Progressive Web App (PWA) is a type of web application that uses modern web technologies to provide a native app-like experience to users, including offline functionality, push notifications, and device hardware access. PWAs can be installed on a user's home screen and launched like a traditional app, but do not require a separate app store listing or download.
- Stylelint
Stylelint is a modern linter for CSS that helps you avoid errors and enforce consistent styling conventions. It provides rules for detecting errors and warnings, and can be configured to match your specific project's requirements.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
- Vercel
Vercel offers built-in support for deploying and hosting Next.js applications, making it a popular choice among Next.js developers.
