# Beluga

Open-source ecommerce store software built with React and Node.js, using Stripe for payments, that a site owner deploys and runs.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/beluga/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://belugajs.com
- repository: https://github.com/binx/beluga
- docs: https://v1.belugajs.com/docs

### Identity

- status: discontinued
- maintainer: Rachel Binx
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: unknown
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: e-commerce
- hosting: node
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: git clone, then yarn, yarn server and yarn start

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: GPL-3.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: unknown
- latestReleaseDate: unknown

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 305
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: unknown
- contributors: 2
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://belugajs.com (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/binx/beluga (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://v1.belugajs.com/ (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/binx/beluga (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://api.github.com/repos/binx/beluga (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/binx/beluga/master/package.json (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/binx/beluga (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/binx/beluga/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/binx/beluga (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/binx/beluga/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- status: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/binx/beluga/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://v1.belugajs.com/docs/dev-environment (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://v1.belugajs.com/docs/new-store (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://v1.belugajs.com/docs/deploy-to-heroku (read 2026-10-23)
- adminUi: https://v1.belugajs.com/docs/managing-orders (read 2026-10-23)

## Notes

Beluga is open-source software for building an ecommerce store, written in JavaScript with React and run as a Node.js server. It uses Stripe for payment processing, has an admin dashboard for orders, and installs by cloning the repository and running it with yarn. Its documentation describes deployment to Heroku.

## Worth knowing

The repository README says the project is deprecated, because the Stripe product and order objects it relies on were replaced. The homepage now documents a rewrite in a separate repository, beluga-v2, and calls this repository the original.

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