Use eCommerce theme (OCC-161)

[hishamco]

it would be nice to use eCommerce theme instead of building on top of the Blog theme. We could use something like https://startbootstrap.com/templates/ecommerce I can submit a PR if the team agrees with the idea

Jira issue

[hishamco]

@Piedone can I have access to this repo in case I need to push a PR, or shall I fork, then commits from the forked repo?

[Piedone]

@DAud-IcI is the project leader here, so Dávid please advise,

[sarahelsaig]

I don't mind. @hishamco, I've added you to the developers group, please check if you have the access.

[hishamco]

Hope to contribute to the repo in the upcoming future, thanks David

[agriffard]

IMHO, if you don't have the time to invest in a dedicated Commerce theme, TheTheme would be a better default choice than TheBlogTheme.

[sarahelsaig]

What's the advantage of using TheTheme vs TheBlogTheme?

[agriffard]

The default recipe that you provide is meant to show the features than the module offers.
You should focus on demonstrating to first time users what they would expect from an ECommerce module (Product listing on homepage, search, product details, add to cart).

Using TheBlogTheme can be kind of a misguiding distraction for the user.
One way to showcase only the features would be to use the default theme.

But then, I guess we all agree that the most fitted UI would be a simple commerce theme as Hisham suggested:

• Site Name, Menu, Cart link at the top.
• Product list (That is why is suggested to add a MediaField)
• Product details (Description, Attributes, Variants)
• Cart page

[sarahelsaig]

For anyone taking this:
move the Modules/OrchardCore.Commerce/Assets/Styles/general/_error.scss into the theme instead.

[hishamco]

@sarahelsaig can I add this theme to https://github.com/OrchardCoreContrib/OrchardCoreContrib.Themes then we could override the views (something similar to the blog theme) or shall we add it into the repo

[sarahelsaig]

You can add a base theme into OrchardCoreContrib.Themes if that helps your workflow, but the theme and the OCC-specific views should be in this repo. Or did you mean something else?

[hishamco]

but the theme and the OCC-specific views should be in this repo

Sure, or we could override them, let me have a deep look to the current customization in TheBlog theme then I can follow it

[Piedone]

Note for when this is done: check if allowInlineStyle is still needed in Program.

[hishamco]

I will busy nowadays with revising and finalizing OC PRs then I can have time for other related OC stuff