How to Build an Ecommerce Website Step by Step
From scoping the actual requirements to inventory, checkout, and order states — the realistic build order for a real store.
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From scoping the actual requirements to inventory, checkout, and order states — the realistic build order for a real store.
A production-grade schema for products, variants, orders, and carts — and the one rule that prevents the worst ecommerce data bugs.
Cache-aside, TTLs, invalidation, and using Redis for rate limiting and sessions — practical caching patterns that hold up in production.
The real trade-offs between REST and GraphQL — caching, over/under-fetching, the N+1 problem, and when each one is genuinely the better choice.