Lets decouple the presentation (front-end/UI) from the eCommerce backend engine for scale and flexibility
Traditional eCommerce engines were a monolith, a large engine on the server(backend) that sends the webpages to us to interact with. This space is changing fast.
A new era of API (application programming interface) based eCommerce is coming in. The web page (front-end or user interface) is now decoupled from the eCommerce backend engines. Benefits are:
- A light weight, scalable backend
- Flexible choice of User Interface. You can have Apps, Web interfaces, Voice systems like Alexa etc
This separation of concerns makes both sides better. Backend focuses on scale and functionality etc. Front-end focuses on the user experience with your choice of platform and tech stack.
How do you identify a headless commerce system?
- Look for a well defined API (API-first approach) and
- See if it allows you to use any front-end technology to roll out UI