Introduction to Unchained Engine

Unchained Engine is an open-source API-first e-commerce framework that lets you build your own custom shopping experiences

Unchained Engine provides:

• Codeability, so you can tweak the system with endless possibilities not restricted by "customization" or a settings-approach
• GraphQL API, allowing you to build fast, performant and modern storefronts
• Stateless architecture, allowing you to scale horizontally and vertically
• Production readiness, due the fact that the host company uses the Unchained Engine for medium- to big enterprise web shops (Dogfooding)

Solution Overview

The following diagram shows all applications and services provided by Unchained as open-source software for you to easily setup your first eCommerce store in a few minutes.

As you can see the Unchained Engine ecosystem consists of

• the Engine itself as server-side only GraphQL API included in an Node app to serve all functionality to manage the store *
• the Control Panel which provides a UI to manage the store's users, products, orders and more as Next.js app *
• the storefront boilerplate web app which provides a customizable UI for the public store itself as Next.js project

* The Unchained Engine and the Control Panel are part of Unchained's hosted service. The Getting Started chapter helps you setup a eCommerce solution using the hosted engine service.

Ready to try it out?

Let's go. Choose what you want to do first and we guide you trough the Unchained Engine setup