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Product Storytelling Using Remix Run

The product storytelling boilerplate is a minimal eCommerce boilerplate built using Remix and Crystallize. You can also check out the live demo of this boilerplate.

What This Guide Covers

  • Setting up your project
  • Instructions for running the project
  • Accessing the development site
  • The folder structure of the boilerplate
  • Editing the components and the overall theme
  • Deploying the project

Getting Started

To get started, head over to GitHub and clone the repository. This project contains two folders - remix and service-API. The remix folder contains the application while the service-API folder contains a middleware service that connects your frontend to your backend. You can find a more detailed explanation of what the API does in the GraphQL Service API documentation. Make sure to install all the required packages by running the following command for both folders:

npm install

Running the Project

Running the project in development is very straightforward. To run the project, head over to the ‘remix’ folder and run the following command:

npm run dev

Accessing the Development Site

Once the development server is running, you will be able to browse to http://localhost:3000.

Folder Structure (Remix)

This section provides you with a better understanding of the folder structure.

app/components

Contains all the components used throughout the application

app/config

A single file containing the details of the locale

app/crystallize

Includes the GraphQL queries used to fetch data from Crystallize

app/routes

Has all the individual pages the website contains

app/service-api

This folder contains all the queries related to the service-api

app/styles

The styles folder has the CSS files needed to style the components

Editing the Theme

All the theme-related information can be edited in the tailwind.config.js file. This includes the colors, spacing, typography used throughout the application.

Editing the Components

Components can be edited by heading over to the components folder in app.

Frontpage

The front page contains a grid and it is fetching all the grid-related information (including the layout) from Crystallize. You can directly edit the grid in Crystallize for changes to take effect. Editing the styling such as the background and typography can be done in the grid-item component.

Product

Individual product pages are using two components - one is the product component that contains the hero section, and the ‘Add to cart’ button and then the product-body component that can be edited to change the layout of the marketing information displayed on the page.

Cart, Checkout, and Confirmation

The basket, checkout, and confirmation pages can be edited in their respective files located in the routes folder.

Deploying to Fly.io

The first step is to install flyctl. To do so, head over to the Fly.io documentation. Once installed, you can sign up or login to Fly by typing the following command:

flyctl auth signup

The next step is to build the app which can be done by entering:

flyctl launch

Lastly, to deploy the application, all you need to do is run:

npm run deploy

Next Step: Service API

In order to manage a fully operational conference website, you need to manage basket validation, payments, and such. For that, we have prepared a boilerplate for you, the Service API boilerplate, which you would want to add alongside your project. Follow our guide for how to set it up.

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