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Alokai is a Frontend as a Service solution that simplifies composable commerce. It connects all the technologies needed to build and deploy fast & scalable ecommerce frontends. It guides merchants to deliver exceptional customer experiences quickly and easily.

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Alokai

An ecosystem of developer tools that accelerate and simplify building eCommerce Storefronts

Fully customizable, backend-agnostic with 2000+ Live Stores!

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Alokai is your guide to the composable commerce world that simplifies building, deploying, and monitoring ecommerce frontends.

  • Works with any backend. Alokai is compatible with any backend that has an API. In addition its already integrated with many of them! See the list of available integrations.

  • Working eCommerce Storefront - Alokai delivers fully-working eCommerce storefront integrated with your favourite stack

  • Fully customizable. Build your application with pre-installed Storefront UI - components library designed for eCommerce, or build your own theme from scratch.

Integrations πŸ›οΈ

Check out the integrations with eCommerce platform, CMS, payment provider, and more.

Getting started πŸš€

Create a new Alokai project with Open Source integration in just a few steps. For the Enterprise integration, please contact sales.

Step 1: Generate a new project 🧰

npx @vue-storefront/cli generate store

You will be asked to enter the project's name and select the eCommerce platform you wish to use. Once selected, the CLI will create project files in the directory matching your project name.

Step 2: Install dependencies ⏳

Go to the newly created directory and install the required dependencies:

cd <project_name>

yarn

Alokai supports only Yarn package manager. If you don't have it installed, please follow the official Yarn installation guide.

Step 3: Configure the project βš™οΈ

The next step is to configure your project, and it's different for every eCommerce integration. Go to the Integrations page, open the documentation for the integration you selected in our CLI, and look for the page describing the configuration steps.

Continue with the configuration steps described in the documentation for your integration.

What you get out-of-the-box πŸ“¦

Alokai Architecture

  • Nuxt.js - the Vue.js framework used to build the application
  • Next.js - the React.js framework used to build the application
  • Alokai Theme - fully functional eCommerce theme based on the Storefront UI library
  • Storefront UI - the Vue.js UI components library used to build the frontend application
  • Alokai Middleware - the Express.js server used to connect the frontend application with the eCommerce platform and other Integrations

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Contribution 🀝

Alokai is an Open Source project and we encourage everyone to help us making it better. If you are interested in contributing to the project, please read our Contributing Guide and Code of Conduct.

If you have any questions about contributing, please join our Discord server - we are happy to help you!

Discovered a 🐜 or have feature suggestion? Feel free to create an issue on Github.

Support us ❀️

Alokai is and always will be Open Source, released under MIT Licence.

How you can help us:

  • Contribute - this is how the Core Team is supporting the project.
  • Spread the word - tell your friends, colleagues, and followers about Alokai.
  • Create content - write a blog post, record a video, or create a tutorial. We will be happy to share it on our social media channels.
  • Engage with the community - help others in our Discord server.

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Partners πŸ’ͺ

Alokai is a Community effort brought to You by our great Core Team and supported by the following companies.

See Alokai partners directory

Alokai source code is completely free and released under the MIT License.

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We are growing and we are looking for talented people to join our team. If you are interested in working with us, please check our Careers page.

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We at Alokai express our support for the people of Ukraine and their right to live in a free and democratic country. We stand with Ukraine and we will continue to support the Ukrainian community.