Vue Storefront 1.12 has just landed! The leading topics for the latest major release of VSF1.x were: performance, an additional Storefront UI based theme, and a new CLI interface. During the 9 months from the last stable release, we’ve included more than 50 new improvements and a lot of optimizations and stabilization fixes. The major […]
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 […]
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 […]
Zadig & Voltaire, the French-based fashion company, has decided to launch a PWA with improved UX for mobile customers, in order to increase their chances of boosting revenues coming from online. The French government has just decided to impose a full lockdown in France, ordering citizens to limit social contact as much as possible. Only […]
Spree Commerce is an open source eCommerce platform built with Ruby on Rails. Spree features a modern responsive frontend but, as its core team, we decided to build an alternative PWA frontend using Vue Storefront and integrate it with an Instagram feed and an influencer referral program. To test it all, we launched a live […]
Let’s cut to the chase… 2020 will be the year of accessible web pages. It is already required by law for federal and government websites to follow WCAG guidelines, and it is only a matter of time when accessibility becomes the next must-have, particularly in eCommerce sites where access to all people at all times […]
The idea behind Storefront UI—the first library consisting of reusable and modular components—is now extending beyond the reach of one particular framework. This means that a React integration is coming soon. Want to take part in the project? Feel free to contact us and become a contributor. The open-source spirit has always driven the development […]
