Both self-hosted. Different decades of stack.

WooCommerce and Litestore agree on the important thing: the store should run on your own infrastructure. They disagree about what it should be built out of — a WordPress plugin with a plugin ecosystem, or a typed TypeScript application with the commerce flows already inside it.

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Side by side.

A tick is a claim about this codebase; where the other product is stronger, its column says so. Prices change, so numbers stay out.

LitestoreWooCommerce

Runtime

Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Bun

WordPress and PHP

Data layer

Prisma schema on PostgreSQL

MySQL, much of it in post meta tables

Type safety

Typed end to end, with schema guards in CI

Dynamic; correctness lives in conventions

Extending it

Write code in the same repo

Plugins, hooks, and filters

Ecosystem

Small and young

Very large, with a plugin for nearly everything

Frontend

Components and design tokens

Themes, page builders, and shortcodes

Which one to pick.

Choose Litestore when

You want a typed codebase where a schema change breaks the build before it breaks a checkout.
You would rather not have the store's behaviour be the sum of fifteen plugins.
Your team already writes React and would rather ship features than reconcile hooks.

Choose WooCommerce when

You already run WordPress and the content side is the main event.
You need a specific plugin that exists there and nowhere else.
Your team's skills are PHP and WordPress, not React and TypeScript.

MIT licensed · self-hosted

Read the code before you decide.

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