If you are interested in composable web architecture or composable commerce you will probably have heard of the terms Jamstack and MACH. In Thailand there is a saying: 'same same but different', which means something is similar, or according to Urban Dictionary, it's used to describe subtle nuances. Keep reading to learn about Jamstack and MACH and if they are 'same same but different' or just plain different.
Ok, to be fair we only modernized the homepage, catalog pages and search, but that's the whole point. If you are in the same situation as our customer and currently have a monolith and got excited about headless & composable commerce, I've got news for you: you don't have to do a big replatform to start using a modern frontend. In this article I will tell you exactly how we modernized the frontend of our customer in only 4 months.
Core Web Vitals are a huge part of Google's strategy to a better, faster and more usable internet. But what are these Core Web Vitals and why should you care?
The Headless CMS offering is huge and to differentiate they all have their own strengths and weaknesses. This article aims to give you a common overview of the available Headless CMS features and hopefully helps if you are in the market for a Headless CMS.
We made the switch from a more traditional integrated e-commerce platform to a headless platform with Next.js. Here are the most important lessons learned while rebuilding a large e-commerce site with Next.js.
This article introduces the commercetools Pulumi plugin 🚀. This plugin allows you to provision commercetools resources, such as project settings, product types and integrations in common programming languages like C#, TypeScript, Go & Python.
Digital experience platforms (DXP) come in two flavors: integrated DXPs and modular DXPs. The latter became a lot more attractive by recent developments, such as the API economy and the Jamstack. This article aims to give you a clear view of the difference between integrated- and modular DXPs and why modular DXPs are on the rise.
Most headless Content Management Systems don't have an integrated way to structure a site's navigation. Kentico Kontent has recently released Spotlight, which is designed to fill this gap. In this article we will look into Spotlight and what it can do for you. Followed by a technical in-depth example of how to integrate Spotlight with NextJS, which is a static site generator.
Writing tests is an important part of our work as software developers. Currently, there is no guidance on how to write tests for Sitecore Commerce Engine plugins and there is no straightforward way to do this. ASP.net core makes it possible to write in-memory integration tests. In this post I will share how you can use this to test your own Sitecore Commerce Engine plugins.
In the past 6 parts of this JSS Commerce series Joost Meijles and me described our experiences developing a basic Sitecore Commerce website with JSS. Most of the articles describe how we implemented a certain feature and why we did it that way. Now that we finished the experiment, we can look back and evaluate using JSS for Sitecore Commerce in a more general way. We will do this by asking ourselves a couple of questions.
