Build a Web Application on top of nopCommerce

Hello,

I have an unusual question, so please bear with me.

Can I use nopCommerce as a framework or base application to build on top of it an application that has nothing to do with e-commerce?

I will be making use of all the features like logging, authentication, etc.

Thank you,


Kind Regards
Bilal Haidar

Hi Bilal,

The question is not that unusual actually ;-)
For example, there is quite a lot of interest in the combination of NopCommerce and Umbraco as Content Management System (CMS).
(I noticed your message on the Umbraco forum as well)

Current status that has been communicated is that the NopCommerce team is almost ready to resume the development of integration of nopCommerce and Umbraco with one of their solution partners that will participate in its development.

See also: Let's discuss the upcoming integration of nopCommerce and Umbraco

Hopefully you have time to wait for this solution; otherwise you may need to search for alternative solutions or develop it yourselves.

If someone can help with ideas to use eg. the same authentication mechanism (same members/customers) for both NopCommerce and Umbraco, please share them!

u can

I use nopComerce as a framework
took an old version took out orders, checkout shipping and so...
left with the framework, products, categories, blog, forum

keep updating it with the latest nop changsets  

I use it on all my web pages and its working great

Thanks all for your feedback.

In fact in my case, I need to build a web application that has nothing to do with e-commerce, but instead of starting from 0, I prefer to start with some solid framework where I don't have to rebuild login module, create users, logging, database etc.

Heyz, can you please share your experience with me on how you stripped down NOC and removed all those things purely related to e-commerce and left the rest?

Thank you,
Bilal

[email protected] wrote:
CMS applications such as Umbraco, Orchard, Word Press, etc. have all the features that you need (login module, create users, logging, database etc.) and have features and more flexible for other non e-commerce purposes. Is there a reason you want to stick to Nop?

Thanks for your response.
No specific reason. I know NOC is a robust ASP.NET app, hence I am looking for something similar (ASP.NET or WordPress).

That's the point.

From experience WordPress or NOC are easier to extend than Umbraco or Orchard.


Regards
Bilal

Sorry, I interpreted your question as one where you wanted to add a non e-commmerce web app (~CMS) on top of an e-commerce app (NopCommerce).

If you are not intending to use e-commerce features at all (for now and in the feature), it would be far more logical to consider using a CMS framework instead of NopCommerce.
Although NopCommerce does a good job at things besides e-commerce, its main focus is (and should be) e-commerce.


Do you mean with "From experience WordPress or NOC are easier to extend than Umbraco or Orchard" that you have more experience with WordPress than eg. Umbraco?

Anyways, if you feel comfortable with WordPress, that might be a good route to go.

If you have not dived into Umbraco yet, it may be worth looking at it and get surprised by it's power and extensibility.
Umbraco has a community that is incredibly pro-active, extremely friendly and helpful.

Hope this helps you further in finding the best solution for your needs!

[email protected] wrote:

i as well feel comfortable with nop platform that is why I rather work with nop and not other cms platform.

it is few hours of work, did it several times.

start with deleting all the unnecessary folders, model and contractors order, shipping and so... in all projects
then build  and start fixing and deleting the errors.

mark the all changed file in new folders for example:
Nop.core.domains has 2 customer folders
customer has all the original files that have not been changed
and Customer1 has all the changed files
this will help u with the updated in the future


I kept product and categories i use product for other purposes as well.

very important to keep updating the project according no nop changeset, if not u will have do to it again in the future.

Thanks a lot for all the responses. I will try to find my way through.

Regards
Bilal

created a slim version based on 3.9 updated today

https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/46301/nopcommerce-slim-version.aspx

u can download the it