Magento – Using Magento as backend ONLY for website

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I want to use my own frontend for my website, and only use Magento for the cart and backend. Most of the site is not a commerce site and I don't want Magento taking it all over. I've read about how to do this with Zen Cart, and I was wondering if it's feasible to do with Magento as I much prefer Magento's backend.

Basically I want to figure out how Magento adds items to the cart and use that code in a button on my website while using my own theme. Then I want to use the code that displays the cart and allows you to checkout in another page.

I'm not even sure this is allowed with Magento's licensing.

Best Answer

You should be able to rustle something up using Magento's SOAP / RESTful API depending on your version of Magento and with some off the cuff PHP.

There is a project which I've never used personally which uses a Angular JS + Laravel "Frontend / Store View" and Magento to power the ecommerce side of things: Magento On Angular