A website’s speed creates the first impression about any online business. The first few seconds of page load are often the “to be or not to be” for conversion. So, how can you get high return visits, low bounce rates, higher conversions, engagement, higher ranks in organic search, and a better user experience? Web performance […]
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 […]
I’ve recently read that 2018 is a year of Progressive Web Apps. It’s like a teenage sex: everybody is reading about it, thinking about it but there are not so many cases to benchmark with. Especially in European Retail. Why is that? I think like with any new technology the barrier is a tendency to […]
The good news is, if you like to build Progressive Web App or implement general use Headless eCommerce — most of the building blocks are already there. Most of them are Open Source. The time You need to spend to run the shop is mostly spend on the integration part — putting it all together Headless apps can be […]
As Vue Storefront is getting it’s momentum, first production grade deployments are live quite often I hear the questions: OK, so why the heck you’ve chosen Vue.js over React? So here’s the story. Disclaimer This is just subjective list of the key reasons why we choose Vue for Vue Storefront — not a general comparison why one […]
IMPORTANT NOTE: This article is written for Vue Storefront 1.0. Some parts may be different in current VS version. If you have any problems with setting up your theme please take a look at our readme or join our slack where you can ask me and almost 500 developers for help. In Vue Storefront you […]
Here’s the first post in the series showing how Progressive Web Apps and microservices architecture can be introduced to your existing applications. As systems age, the development tools and system architectures they were built on can become increasingly obsolete. As new features and functionality are added, the complexity of these applications can increase dramatically, making […]
Here is a short tutorial for developers — on how to connect Vue Storefront to Magento 2 instance and develop your own customizations. It’s probably a good starting point for your first VS based implementation. So, let’s get started! Intro to VSF installation on Magento 2 To get started with VS we must start with some very […]
Piotr Karwatka, CTO at Divante, contributor at Vue Storefront is answering José Maria Beltramini questions about PWA. What about iOS compatibility? iOS (all browsers), Safari and MS Edge do support PWA in their latest Developer Preview Editions. That means the mechanisms are going to be supported in the next major release of the browser. It’s important […]
Together with ShopRank, we’ve recently created the State of mobile-first eCommerce report, focusing on the mobile experience and performance of 11,000 online stores. The results presented in the report aren’t optimistic. Speed and an engaging UX should be top features of mobile-first eCommerce, but the performance and accessibility audit average scores are 35/100 and 58/100 […]
Not so long ago Magento’s Peter Sheldon wrote a brilliant blog post about the Business value of Progressive Web Apps. It’s hard to not agree with the reasons he gave t there for investing in PWAs next year. According to our last report on eCommerce Trends for 2018: Progressive Apps seem like a new Mobile […]
