What is a Reference Module?

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5 Feb 2025

Overview

A Reference Module is a Module provided by Fluent Commerce that is designed to provide reference artifacts that you can use to create your own solutions. While an Extension contains an entire solution within itself, Reference Modules provide Domain Artifacts that can be used to speed up building your solutions. Structurally, Reference Modules are identical to Modules, as are Extensions.

Key points

Provide understanding of Reference Module and link to some examples

Examples

Here are some examples of Reference Modules you can use now:

Maintainability

In terms of maintainability, it is a good habit of the customer/experienced SI Partner to upgrade the customer's environment to the latest reference modules to adopt the latest features.

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Edited 37 days ago

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