Storecraft 🧰 Platform Open source

Storecraft is an open-source, headless commerce backend written in TypeScript, aimed at developers who want to run their own store engine on serverless or edge infrastructure rather than adopt a full hosted platform. It's database-agnostic (MongoDB, SQLite, Postgres, MySQL, Turso, Neon, Cloudflare D1, PlanetScale) and storage-agnostic, and it deploys to environments like Node, Deno, Bun, or Cloudflare Workers. It ships with an admin dashboard and a lightweight storefront starter, but it's fundamentally an API/backend you build a store on top of, not a plug-and-play shop.

Because it's self-hosted and open source, there's no rev-share, commission, or payout structure to evaluate — you run the code yourself, on your own infrastructure, and keep 100% of what your store makes minus your own hosting and payment-processor fees. There is no separate paid tier to speak of at this stage; it's free, open-source software.

Storecraft is best suited to developers or technical teams comfortable with TypeScript who want fine-grained control over their commerce stack, especially if they're already using serverless/edge tooling and want to avoid vendor lock-in on the database layer. It is not a fit for non-technical store owners — there's no drag-and-drop storefront builder, and you'll need to build or heavily customize the frontend yourself.

The project is real and actively developed (regular commits, an open-source repo with a working CI pipeline, an official docs site, and a modest but growing GitHub following), but it is still young and comparatively small next to established players like Vendure or Medusa. Long-term maintenance and ecosystem depth (plugins, integrations, community support) are less proven. It suits general e-commerce use cases where technical flexibility matters more than a mature plugin marketplace.