Comparison of frontend solutions for headless ecommerce (December 2021)

We’ve checked four options so far - Vue Storefront 2 (integrations with Magento and Shopify), NextJS Commerce, ScandiPWA and Shopify Hydrogen. It’s worth noting that some of them are still under development (for example Hydrogen is just a preview for developers and is in quite an early state), so we may suspect that some features will be added in the future. This is just the state of things as of December 2021 but at this moment it can come in handy when looking for a PWA solution for your next project.

Available features:

We’ve prepared demo versions of the aforementioned frontend solutions so you can see them in action:

• Vuestorefront + Magento
• Vuestorefront + Shopify
• NextJS + BigCommerce

There is no simple answer to the question of which solution you should choose. Each project is different, each one has different requirements. Can you choose your backend as well or is it already decided? Wide coverage of ecommerce features is extremely important but maybe there is this one feature that is worth ten other features for you? Can your store be rendered only on the client-side? You will need to carefully weigh in all options and choose the one that is the best for you.

You can also download both the tables below.