
Medusa Has a Free API: Build Your Own Open-Source Shopify Alternative
Have you ever looked at your Shopify bill and thought, "I could build this myself"? Well, now you actually can — and Medusa gives you the API to do it. What Is Medusa? Medusa is an open-source headless commerce platform that gives you a fully-featured e-commerce API — products, carts, orders, payments, shipping — all exposed through a clean REST and JS SDK. Think Shopify, but you own the code. And the API is free. The API: Everything You Need Medusa's API covers the entire commerce lifecycle: # List products curl http://localhost:9000/store/products # Create a cart curl -X POST http://localhost:9000/store/carts \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" # Add item to cart curl -X POST http://localhost:9000/store/carts/ { cart_id } /line-items \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"variant_id": "variant_123", "quantity": 1}' Products, variants, collections, categories, carts, orders, customers, discounts, gift cards, returns, swaps, payments, shipping — it's ALL there. Why Developers
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