How To Select the Right Ecommerce Storefront - Vue Storefront Review

Vue Storefront reviews, the second in the series of storefront reviews designed to help you make more informed choices when you go headless and decide on choosing a prebuilt head – eCommerce storefront – FeaaS.

There have been an increasing number of new options appearing on the market that provide a delivery you a storefront you can customize as a FEaaS. To help you determine which is best for you, I created a simple analysis tool with 9 questions or considerations you should make when choosing what's suitable for you. Following that video, I had a few of you reach out asking if I could review some of the storefronts out there.

So I did, I chose 4 storefronts, and I used my own framework to provide a high-level analysis to help you in making a shortlist. When I started editing them together into a video and providing a little conclusion, the final video was way too long.
So I choose to re-edit them into separate videos, with a separate summary video. This video is Vue Storefront.

I’ll add the links here as they are published.
Frontastic

VueStorefront

Salesforce Composable Storefront

Front Commerce

Just a quick note on the methods I used to get the data for the questions. This analysis was made
o by talking directly to some of the vendors
o Looking through documentation and reference materials
o Getting feedback from developers who have worked on the storefronts
o Downloading software where possible
o Using google devtools
o Using google lighthouse to analyse 3 sites for each storefront - I will be keeping the sites anonymous.
o I used BuiltWith to help me find live sites.
o I took lighthouse scores for both desktop and mobile separately
o I ran five tests for desktop and mobile on each site and used the best scores
o I then averaged out the individual scores for each attribute across the sites
o This gives a good indication, but as we all know, a lot of the time, it can also come down to the developer’s implementation.

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[filiprakowski]

Thanks for a great review, John! I've been following your videos for some time already (hands down best YT channel about headless commerce), and it's exciting to see you reviewing Vue Storefront. I'm very glad you liked it! The team is working hard to make it better with every release!

[DuyTran-xkqo]

Thanks for sharing the knowledge John. I've been following your channel to keep myself up-to-date and I dont know why it took me this long to leave a thank you note until now .

[edrivenstudioslevar]

I wish someone would do a Udemy Course on VSF.