js-buy-sdk VS nextjs-shopify-store

Shopify JS Buy SDK

To do so, you will need the Shopify JavaScript Buy SDK, which you can get by installing the necessary package:

This is not completely true. This depends on what kind of development resources you have access to. Shopify has very robust APIs that allow you to build what ever storefront you can imagine - and by implementing something like The Shopify Buy SDK into your website or application, this can also be hosted wherever you want (A headless ecommerce store). You just use Shopify for its checkout. WooCommerce has a hard time competing with this (it can be done, but it doe not come close to comparing at the moment).

The JavaScript Buy SDK is an SDK for hitting the Store Front API. Basically, you can use this SDK for product information and cart operations, so I thought I'd use it entirely, but there were some problems. The SDK is only used for cart operations such as adding and deleting products, while the GraphQL client library (graphql-request) is used for retrieving product information and search functions on the product page, directly hitting the Store Front API. This is because, first of all, JS Buy SDK seems to have an old type definition of TypeScript, and the type information does not match the property that can actually be retrieved, and it is necessary to extend the type definition partially by oneself. This was the first time for me to extend the type definitions, so I learned a lot, but it was troublesome to determine which properties were typed and which were not. Also, the basic properties supported by the SDK are only a part of the information that can be retrieved by the Store Front API as described in the official documentation, and when I tried to extend the SDK, it seemed to be so cumbersome (for example, the collection page does not support sorting of products). (Sorting is achieved with the SDK like this) Therefore, I decided to use the SDK only for cart operations where the SDK is sufficient, extending the library's typedefs, and to define a custom client to directly access to the Store Front API for the rest.

Hi, I'm just wondering, it seems that in the storefront-api-examples they use babel-plugin-graphql-js-client-transform to transform GraphQL queries into the format from js-buy-sdk (as far as I understand), but what's wrong with fetch('https://SHOP_NAME.myshopify.com/api/2021-07/graphql.json', {...}), is this somehow deprecated?

Store: https://nextjs-shopify-store.vercel.app Repository: https://github.com/naoya-kuma1990/nextjs-shopify-store Technologies used: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Material UI, Shopify JavaScript Buy SDK, Store Front API (Graph QL) Implemented pages: Collection (product list), product details, cart, search results