Vue Storefront VS spartacus

4+ years in and we are 100+ people company covering most of the commerce platforms out there - check it out www.vuestorefront.io

We're currently building an integration between Vue Storefront (https://www.vuestorefront.io/) and WooCommerce.

If you are looking for a production-ready Nuxt application with Shopify, check out https://www.vuestorefront.io/ and especially, the integration with Shopify https://docs.vuestorefront.io/shopify/.

Vue Storefront is an open source frontend framework for headless ecommerce built on top of Vue.js. It provides ready-made integrations to existing ecommerce platforms and allows you to extend the framework to build your own integration.

To enable Cache on the browser level, we will be using a http-cache package from Vue Storefront that you can check out here.

Vue Storefront is Lightning-Fast Frontend Platform for Headless Commerce. Boost your site performance, shape the customer journey and free your developer's creativity with Vue Storefront, the last frontend you will ever need.

For the storefront you have many options. For instance, there is Vue Storefront or Next.js Commerce.

Vue storefront is an open source platform that provides a storefront for ecommerce platforms. Although it integrates with many monolithic platforms, it is made specifically for headless commerce platforms.

Personally if I were hiring for this today I'd look for someone with prior experience with a "headless" solution that works with multiple ecommerce platforms. Vue Storefront and Gatsby are the best of the bunch in my opinion.

I was struggling to find out why the Angular Universal SSR was hanging in my app. I knew it had to be some pending async task that prevented the SSR from completion, but it was hard to guess which one. So I googled how to track async tasks in Angular and I learnt about the plugin zone.js/plugins/task-tracking. Thanks to this plugin, I quickly located the faulty line in the code and fixed the hanging SSR in the app.

When I heard that SAP is working on Spartacus - a storefront framework based on Angular - I was super excited and couldn't wait to try it out. In fact, I had the privilege to work on one of the first Spartacus integration for the high street beauty brand. I must admit it was challenging. The new storefront (Spartacus) that was based on a framework (Angular) that has a steep learning curve, poor documentation and lack of a wider community around it didn't make things any easier.

Here's a fix of the above error in the real world library (when running yarn build:libs).