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Headless Commerce

Most storefronts force a choice: pre-built and fast, or live and correct. This capability builds on Next.js 16 partial prerendering and cache components so a product page loads instantly from the edge while price, stock, and recommendations stream in live a moment later. Cart interactions feel instant too — the UI updates the second a customer clicks, before the server confirms. The architecture is the same whether the commerce backend is Shopify’s new Hydrogen toolkit or a non-Shopify platform like Medusa — only the data adapter changes, so you are never locked into one host or one commerce vendor.

“Our store either loads fast with stale prices, or shows live data and feels slow — and switching commerce platforms later means rebuilding the whole site.”

What's included

  • Instant page loads with live price/stock streamed in (partial prerendering)
  • Optimistic add-to-cart with no spinner and automatic rollback on failure
  • Edit a price or product in the backend, see it live on the storefront within seconds
  • Scales to any catalog size without slower deploys
  • Shareable, indexable product/variant URLs
  • One consistent architecture across Shopify and non-Shopify backends

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