In the coming years, eCommerce will experience the next wave of changes. In this article, you’ll find the most popular eCommerce predictions and future trends that will shape the new era of eCommerce. Headless commerce Since the beginning of time, traditional legacy eCommerce platforms, also known as monolith platforms, were the only choice for building […]
Headless commerce is on the rise; there is no doubt about it. Enterprises, big brands, and multinational eCommerce companies are all seriously looking into the potential of dumping their monoliths in favor of composable systems, or they have made the shift already. But changing the whole architecture is quite an endeavor. You and your team […]
When 2020 took an unexpected turn in a really bad direction, the eCommerce industry was one of the few sectors that not just avoided harm, but actually grew. Driven by that strong and sudden boost, investors rushed to buy shares in Shopify and other eCommerce companies, making them a kind of winner when everything else […]
After raising $1.5 million in the early-stage investment round, Vue Storefront has just closed $17,4 million in Series A funding led by Creandum followed by Earlybird Venture Capital and Paua Ventures. The company will invest the funds to scale up its business and expand its reach to merchants from the SMB sector. The last round […]
Last Friday was a good day for Vue Storefront project 🙂 Big thanks to Snow.dog for the Vue Storefront Hackathon#2 in Poznań! During yesterday’s whole-day session we hosted around 25 developers at Snow.dog’s office + around 10 more people joined us remotely. Guys from Argentina were with us from 4:00 AM their time (!). You […]
Today morning we released Vue Storefront 1.2. Congratulations to the team! Looking forward for Your feedback. This release was focused mostly on the bugfixes and minor improvements. New features Docker support for vue-storefront How to setup Vue Storefront on production docs added [#1450] Integration tests for Compare products added [#1422] Wishlist module refactored to the […]
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 […]
