Michael Bromley

Modern Headless Commerce with Vendure

Scaffold a full e-commerce backend in minutes. Then extend your API, database, and admin UI with a single config object—no boilerplate.

Modern Headless Commerce with Vendure
#1about 3 minutes

Tracing the evolution of e-commerce platforms

Early e-commerce involved manual HTML forms and email-based orders, but the landscape has since matured with many frameworks and SaaS solutions.

#2about 4 minutes

Why JavaScript and TypeScript dominate modern development

JavaScript's performance, massive ecosystem, and full-stack capabilities, enhanced by TypeScript's static typing, make it the leading choice for new applications.

#3about 8 minutes

What headless architecture means for e-commerce

Headless architecture decouples the backend from the frontend via an API, enabling the use of multiple clients and modern tooling like Jamstack or Edge Computing.

#4about 1 minute

An overview of the Vendure e-commerce framework

Vendure is an open-source, headless commerce framework built on Node.js and TypeScript that provides a GraphQL API and an extensible core for custom development.

#5about 3 minutes

Setting up a local Vendure project with the CLI

Use the `npx @vendure/create` command to scaffold a new project, connect to a database, populate it with test data, and explore the GraphQL API.

#6about 5 minutes

Customizing the data model with custom fields

Extend core entities like 'Customer' by defining custom fields in the config file, which automatically updates the database schema, GraphQL API, and admin UI.

#7about 2 minutes

Integrating a storefront with Vendure's headless API

While headless requires building a separate storefront, starter kits for frameworks like Remix running on Edge Computing platforms can accelerate development.

#8about 2 minutes

Q&A on sessions, features, and performance

The Q&A covers handling sessions with cookies or tokens, highlights the customizable promotions engine, and discusses performance scaling and comparisons to Medusa.

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