Shopware PWA, even though it doesn’t impose any limits when it comes to customization for enterprises, was also conceived as the “shortcut” to the eCommerce industry dedicated to local businesses. All that said, we couldn’t forget about the UX while developing the product. How did we reconcile the seemingly opposing assumptions of flexibility and ease […]
UX is gaining importance not only in terms of brand awareness but also conversion – all available data has left that issue without any doubts. Yet, for eCommerce businesses, it has been challenging to keep up with all the UX-trends without diving into time-consuming and expensive changes in the system’s architecture. Until now. Storefront UI is […]
Vue Storefront, though platform-agnostic by design, was always in a very close relationship with Magento because that was the platform on which we were able to make the most dynamic and visible performance gains. However, the time has now come for a new adventure. Our Shopware 6 integration Developer Preview will appear at the end […]
After almost 3 years of building Vue Storefront together with our community, we learned a lot. It’s safe to say that after such a long time we have very deep and unique knowledge about the needs, weaknesses, and strengths of headless eCommerce. From the very beginning, we were constantly improving Vue Storefront with every iteration […]
Shopware PWA, even though it doesn’t impose any limits when it comes to customization for enterprises, was also conceived as the “shortcut” to the eCommerce industry dedicated to local businesses. All that said, we couldn’t forget about the UX while developing the product. How did we reconcile the seemingly opposing assumptions of flexibility and ease […]
Cooperation between Vue Storefront and commercetools has been going on for some time, during which Vue Storefront became a part of commercetools Accelerator as a recommended frontend. Now it is time to make it formal: we are now officially a Tech Partner of commercetools, a platform that was recently identified by Forrester as a “Leader” […]
It took us two intensive months to move the Capybara Theme from “Developer’s preview” status to “Release Candidate”. We’re very happy to announce that we’ve just achieved this important milestone! In the last weeks, our effort has been focused mostly on Capybara’s performance, keeping pace with Storefront UI and stabilization fixes. The theme has been […]
Apple doesn’t seem to take lessons from the past… iOS 13 beta 1 version has resolved many annoying bugs of iOS 12 and onwards. But it didn’t release the document, which describes the bug fixes. Call it another PWA marketing failure or whatever you like— it’s difficult to comprehend why a technological giant of Apple’s […]
Just a few months ago, in a blog post about what’s in store for Vue Storefront, I depicted our new R&D pipeline, which is now getting closer to the production-ready stage. The moment has now come to share some further details with the broader community. After seven intensive months of experiments, tests, and occasional mistakes, […]
BreakHarbor is a UK web store committed to eliminating single-use plastic through the sale of sustainable, stainless steel water bottles. It’s quite common in BreakHarbor’s market to bet heavily on expanding on mobile, but the founders took it a step further by skipping native apps and app stores and implementing a Progressive Web App from […]
It took us a while but we did it! Today, we’re proudly releasing Storefront API 1.0rc2. You can use the Storefront GraphQL API to integrate all your backend systems with your eCommerce frontend under a single GraphQL/REST API. By default, all catalog information is stored in ElasticSearch, and all the write operations are forwarded to […]
The Vue Storefront ecosystem is expanding and now it becomes a crucial part of commercetools Accelerator as a recommended, open-source frontend for commercetools. Check out why it is win-win cooperation, and why it was an inevitable step forward for us. “commercetools is a next-generation software company” is the claim in the “About Us” section of […]
You are a senior frontend developer very engaged in UX-related topics, but your experience is not limited to frontend. What was your career path? Maya Shavin: I am not originally from a technical background. I have a degree in Economics and, when I moved to Israel, I started to study jewelry design. However, I always […]
With Yehor Shytikov, Software Engineer at THE COFFEE BEAN & TEA LEAF, we talk about how Progressive Web App will change the eCommerce sector. You worked for some time with Magento. What is your experience with this platform at the beginning and how did it change over the years? Yehor Shytikov, Software Engineer at THE […]
