Early Seller App for a D2C Commerce Platform
A D2C retail storefront
Overview
An early seller-app scaffold for a direct-to-consumer commerce platform, hosted on GitLab. It is the lean starting point that later grew into the full seller web application, establishing the core stack of React, Firebase, and Shopify before the feature build-out.
Why It Exists
Before investing in a feature-rich seller dashboard, the team needed a minimal working shell that wired together the storefront’s intended building blocks, React routing, Firebase data, and Shopify commerce, to validate the architecture.
What We Built
A Create React App project (src/, public/) with the foundational dependencies in place:
react/react-dom with react-router-dom, the @ice/store state container, the Firebase SDK,
and the Shopify Buy SDK (shopify-buy), plus the standard Testing Library and web-vitals setup.
It is intentionally minimal compared with the later, much larger seller web app.
Technologies & Approach
The same React + Firebase + Shopify foundation used across the platform, kept deliberately bare so the architecture could be proven before layering on search, dashboards, and analytics.
Outcome / Impact
Validated the seller-app stack and routing skeleton; the concept carried forward and matured into the production seller web application.
Capabilities Demonstrated
- Fast scaffolding of a commerce app on React + Firebase + Shopify
- Clean separation of an early build from the later production build
- Pragmatic architecture validation before feature investment