Introduction to Flex

Sharetribe Flex is a complete solution for building powerful online marketplaces. Flex offers all the necessary marketplace infrastructure out of the box while allowing you full control to customize your user experience. As your business grows, Flex takes care of running and scaling your backend. Powered by modern technology (React, Redux, and Node.js) and designed around a headless architecture, Flex is fast, scalable and customizable. These articles cover the basics of Sharetribe Flex and introduce some core concepts that will help you to start building your custom marketplace solution.

• Introducing Flex

  Overview of how Sharetribe Flex works, and how you can build your online marketplace platform using it.

• How to build and launch your marketplace with Flex

  This article describes what it takes to build and launch your marketplace with Sharetribe Flex. There are four main stages in this process, and we'll go through each one in detail.

• Is Flex the right fit for you?

  The purpose of this article is to give you a general overview of whether Flex is a good solution for building your specific marketplace idea.

• What development skills are needed?

  Building a custom marketplace with Flex requires some software development skills. This article explains what you need to know when customizing the platform.

• Introducing Sharetribe Web Template

  Learn about the out of the box functionalities available in the Sharetribe Web Template and how to take them into use.

• Getting started with Sharetribe Web Template

  Learn how to install Sharetribe Web Template to your local development environment.

• Getting started with Flex CLI

  This tutorial shows you how to get started with the Flex CLI. You will learn how to log in with your API key, how to use the help command and other basic commands.

• Getting started with the Integration API

  This tutorial is the place to start your journey building custom integrations using the Flex Integration API.