A month ago I started telling people about Daffodil — an open-source ecommerce framework to build ecommerce stores that connect to any platform. I posted to HN, and the response was both immediate and wild.
I had only a few comments on the post, but the star count grew much faster than I could ever have hoped for. 
Just look at how ridiculous that chart looks. I was cheering out loud in my little office.
I had many people joining Discord asking about what I was building. I had a few people write articles and I even got my first Github Sponsor!
It was a great feeling of validation after working on Daffodil for so long. Perhaps maybe, just maybe, this idea I’ve been thinking about and iterating on for years may help someone other than just me.
Since that post, I’ve put the axe to the grindstone a bit more, as I’ve been doing in the past to try and push Daffodil even further.
We landed Angular 20 support, improved the @daffodil/commerce schematic (which you can use to setup a local storefront in seconds) so that people can choose their platform off-the-rip when building their store front, and even added and improved new drivers — including Shopify support!
Here’s what the new demo looks like:
And that’s not even the half of it, we also had a flurry of activity in the codebase, much of it from Hacktoberfest! We merged over 50 PRs! If you want to join the fun, this is me shouting at you through the ether “I would love to see you soon!”
There’s so much ahead. New drivers, new platforms, new features. Immediately in front of me is the @daffodil/category package and its associated parts in the @daffodil/commerce schematic so that you can have category pages without having to build it yourself.
If you’re curious about open-source ecommerce, want to build faster storefronts, or just want to hang out with some great devs, come by the Discord and say hi.
And if you haven’t yet — give Daffodil a ⭐️ on GitHub. Every one of those helps more people discover what we’re building together.
