This is more of a lead-gen ad for Medusa, tagging on the back of a deservedly-popular HN article.
The dissonance of this juxtaposition is comical. Are we going to ignore the elephant in the room? That Medusa's very own site, and the stores built with it, are the exact opposite of McMaster.com? If you started with Medusa, you wouldn't end up with McMaster.com. McMaster.com is as good as it is because it doesn't use the latest flavor of a bloated JS framework.
The points made in the article (they have a search bar at the top, they have sidebar....on the side, a cart page, a checkout page) are basic ecommerce, and have been for 20+ years. That's not what differentiates McMaster.
This comes off as a poor attempt to jump on the McMaster news cycle than to actually point out things that make it good.
It's their service, their longevity, their dependability, the simplicity, the availability, and the specificity that make it good. They're not good because of their ecommerce and web design choices. Their ecommerce and web design are good because they didn't jump on the latest tech fad every other year for the past 10 years.
The dissonance of this juxtaposition is comical. Are we going to ignore the elephant in the room? That Medusa's very own site, and the stores built with it, are the exact opposite of McMaster.com? If you started with Medusa, you wouldn't end up with McMaster.com. McMaster.com is as good as it is because it doesn't use the latest flavor of a bloated JS framework.
The points made in the article (they have a search bar at the top, they have sidebar....on the side, a cart page, a checkout page) are basic ecommerce, and have been for 20+ years. That's not what differentiates McMaster.
This comes off as a poor attempt to jump on the McMaster news cycle than to actually point out things that make it good.
It's their service, their longevity, their dependability, the simplicity, the availability, and the specificity that make it good. They're not good because of their ecommerce and web design choices. Their ecommerce and web design are good because they didn't jump on the latest tech fad every other year for the past 10 years.