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When Googling ‘the meaning of storefront in eCommerce,’ you find most snippets explaining it as part of monolithic solutions that comprise the entire eCommerce platform from frontend to backend. Yes, the entire eCommerce platform you use is essential and valuable for your users and business. But we want to focus on the importance and value […]
Relentless eCommerce growth and rapidly changing customer behaviors have been pushing companies to speed up their digital transformation for years. However, a frequent problem is that their monolith, all-in-one IT legacy systems slow them down and block them from innovation. Monoliths are simply incapable of keeping up with the pace of the eCommerce industry and […]
PWA – Progressive Web Application – became a thing after 2015, when Google incorporated a strong focus on the mobile experience. 2015 was a pivotal year favoring PWAs, and the continued growth made them fit more and more into eCommerce. As eCommerce technology evolved, PWAs followed corresponding with the headless paradigm, to form now matching […]
“Peace is always beautiful.” – Walt Whitman Love, peace, and smiles are the best ways to create a world where everybody can live in peace and harmony. We are living in the calmest era in human history. Some of us are not even aware of the actual damage and hardships ongoing war is causing in […]
Why is UI accessibility so important? What are the most common accessibility issues and how to detect them? In this article, I will provide you with answers to those questions. What’s more, I’ll show you how the Storefront UI library helps to take care of all those accessibility-related errors. Let’s go! What is UI accessibility? […]
Why you should optimize images? Image optimization is very important for web performance. You need to have optimized images – small, compressed and served in modern formats to have a fast website. It also directly impacts your server/cloud transfer size – if you have bigger images, it generates higher costs. For an eCommerce website, often […]
In this piece, we cover the matter of API in eCommerce, headless technology and modern headless commerce. We set the focus on business reasoning behind the new approach towards efficient and modular eCommerce systems. Starting from the definition of an API, API-first commerce, its role in forming flexible online services, and the benefits of moving […]
In the book series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” Douglas Adams wrote that once the dolphins knew that the Earth was going to be destroyed for a hyperspatial express route, being the most intelligent creatures on the planet, the dolphins flew off the planet Earth, saying the iconic phrase “So long, and thanks for […]
2021 was a fantastic year for Vue Storefront. When you are in your first operating year as a startup, you have no historical data to prepare goals for a particular year. And 2021 went way beyond our expectations. But let’s start from the beginning. How did it start? Vue Storefront has two lives: before & […]
Rapid growth means keeping your head, up high. While we fuel headless commerce, we know that relentless expansion requires experience paired with clear goals. We are boldly looking to the future and moving forward. That’s why we’re excited to announce that as of February 2022, Viktoria Guseva has become VP of Marketing at Vue Storefront. […]
Contentstack, the company that delivers a headless, enterprise-dedicated CMS platform, doesn’t need an introduction. Anybody familiar with MACH-oriented trends in eCommerce knows this already household name. This CMS is one of the brightest and most appreciated stars on the newborn “headless” tech scene, and already brought the attention of the most notable eCommerce businesses and […]
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 […]