Medusa is an open-source modular commerce infrastructure for building highly performant, scalable, and data-intensive commerce applications. Medusa’s modular architecture makes it flexible and extensible. It is a great tool for building e-commerce stores. Medusa provides three (3) building blocks for a commerce system: the backend, an admin dashboard, and a storefront.

Next.js is an open-source React framework for building web applications. Next.js pre-rendering allows your application to be incredibly fast.

In this article, I will share how I built an e-commerce store with Medusa and Next.js. At the end of this article, you will have a solid understanding of how to set up a Medusa backend and admin panel and build your storefront from scratch with Next.js.