Building a Multi-Vendor Marketplace From Scratch: Lessons From 30,000 Lines of React
By Faiz Ullah — Full-Stack Developer & Founder of DG Technology
Most "build an e-commerce site" tutorials stop at a product list and a cart. They don't deal with the actual hard part: three different types of humans — customers, sellers, and admins — all needing their own secure space inside the same app, talking to each other in real time, without ever stepping on each other's data.
That's what I set out to build with Ecommerce, a multi-vendor marketplace that grew to over 30,000 lines of React. Here's what I learned engineering it.
The Real Challenge: Three Apps in One






