Magento is based on PHP which makes it need more infrastructure to serve more users. People also use Wordpress, Joomla for setting up ecommerce sites. Are there developers or customers who might be interested in having access to open source Node.js ecommerce solution along the lines of Magento, but also updated in terms of functionality for today's world where buyers lurk on apps like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.
I think you are asking the wrong crowd and possibly the wrong quesion.<p>The prime consumers of any eCommerce platform are business users, those who work with inventory, sales, returns etc. If they prefer one package to another, they aren't even going to consider what language it was written in. They plain don't care and they will tell the coder guy which one they want.
Yes I am too.
But I think nodejs still misses some things to be a great language, at most the synchronous way. Some people try to make it by implementing the same syntax as in C# (async/await) or by finding others ways (like coffee script try with defer). But finaly we still have with so much spaghetti... And for example, just try to think about how many levels of callback you will need to have to write only the Config model of Magento : it's insame.
So, at this time, I don't think that the language is good enought without a transcompilator like coffeescript (even I don't like the idea) or a strong runtime lib (which one?). And from that will depends the success.
Of course, this would be extremely revolutionary. Is there one in the works.
On a technical level, are yo a single developer because the code needed isnt a joke. The most underdeveloped php ecommerce frameworks are opencart and prestashop, and even they are pretty well polished.
Magento has it's problems but resource usage under scale probably isn't on most peoples mind. Usually your ecommerce traffic is worth many magnitudes more than the computation cost. Reasonable response times for a single request would be nice though
Worthy try,but given the Node developer community is small, it would take good amount of time to hit mainstream traction,case in example : Spreecommerce built on RoR