Spartacus
SAP's open-source Angular storefront for SAP Commerce Cloud
- Best for
- Enterprise teams already running SAP Commerce Cloud who need an Angular-based, SEO-friendly composable storefront on top of it.
- Skip if
- You're not on SAP Commerce Cloud - Spartacus is tightly coupled to that backend and isn't a general-purpose e-commerce starter.
Spartacus (now officially called SAP Commerce Cloud composable storefront) is a lean, open-source Angular-based storefront that talks to SAP Commerce Cloud exclusively through its REST API. It runs decoupled from the backend on its own server, supports PWA capabilities, server-side rendering for SEO, and CMS-driven page composition, and is developed and maintained by the SAP Commerce Cloud team.
Pros
- Free, open source, and maintained directly by SAP's Commerce Cloud team
- Decoupled architecture with SSR and PWA support suits SEO-sensitive enterprise storefronts
- Upgradable library structure keeps custom storefronts compatible with new SAP releases
Cons
- Only useful if you're already running SAP Commerce Cloud as the backend
- spartacus.dev, the domain often associated with the project, is not SAP's official site and currently redirects elsewhere - use github.com/SAP/spartacus instead
- Angular-specific and enterprise-oriented, not aimed at indie/solo developers
Features
Growth and ops
- SEO-optimized
Licensing and commercial
- Open source
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