What do Warby Parker, Samsung, and Nike have in common? No idea? Well, all of them are built on Magento platform. In fact, most of the e-commerce websites run on Magento. Given a variety of choice, what makes Magento so special? Why is it favorite amongst the developers for building e-commerce sites?
Magento is an open source and free
Magento has three versions in total and the most popular of them is the Community Edition that boasts the largest and active developer community for e-commerce platform. Magento is easy, free to download and install. You can tweak the source code as per your needs and install extensions available through Magento Connect Marketplace. Magento store gets updated on regular basis by the developer community. Moreover, there reside no security issues.