My first look at Sellvana – the new ecommerce open source platform

Here is some (rather unsorted) feedback after my in-depth look at Sellvana:

• Sellvana is a really interesting piece of software that makes you wish for more
• Installation is more than easy and fast (especially in contrast to e.g. OroCRM)
• Cool features like responsive design, nice admin dashboard, ..
• Smooth learning curve
• The former connection to Magento can evidently be seen in functions like "onCategoryAfterSave"
• Nice to see some Behat tests next to the regular unit tests
• The repository is actively used and not only synced from elsewhere
• I hadn’t had a closer into look into the Fulleron framework (which Sellvana is based upon) up until now but it looks very clear and understandable and it is based on the BuckyBall library
• Clear module separation with all necessary files within the same module folder (views, assets, tests, models, i18n, lib, ..)
• Configuration is mostly done in easy YAML format
• Sometimes variable/method naming conventions are a bit uncommon (like i(), BPHPTAL, action_run2() ..)
• Docblocks for documentation could be used more intensively
• I’m wondering why there is no separate docroot folder as otherwise files are more likely to be exposed on the web by accident
• No use of CSS preprocessor
• In my opinion it would be nice to see some newer PHP language constructs like namespaces / traits (for Sellvana system requirements see http://sellvana.com/community/6/installation-walkthrough)
• .. a lot more to come ..

I know that the application is in a very early state so please understand this as a simple sum up and the points can change quickly.