--- title: How to customize Aimeos without turning upgrades into... description: Aimeos, a Laravel e-commerce package, provides a layered customization model that avoids forking core code. Small changes like labels and feature flags belong... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-customize-aimeos-without-turning-upgrades-into-merge-projects-wdj6kmuhj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to customize Aimeos without turning upgrades into merge projects | daily.dev og:description: Aimeos, a Laravel e-commerce package, provides a layered customization model that avoids forking core code. Small changes like labels and feature flags belong... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-customize-aimeos-without-turning-upgrades-into-merge-projects-wdj6kmuhj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wDJ6KmUhJ.png og:image:alt: How to customize Aimeos without turning upgrades into merge projects og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to customize Aimeos without turning upgrades into merge projects **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Aimeos, a Laravel e-commerce package, provides a layered customization model that avoids forking core code. Small changes like labels and feature flags belong in config/shop.php, page layouts are assembled by composing storefront components, and template overrides target only the smallest relevant partial. Business logic changes use decorators that wrap existing controllers without duplicating them. Larger customizations are packaged as standalone Composer extensions with their own classes, translations, templates, and database setup. For headless scenarios, Aimeos exposes JSON:API and GraphQL endpoints so the bundled HTML frontend can be replaced entirely. The approach keeps upgrade costs bounded by limiting what the project actually owns. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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